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Now available as an audiobook: TO REACH THE SPRING, Nathaniel Popkin's "clarifying, bracing, and ultimately transformative" book on the climate crisis. Narrated by the author himself, it's a great listen. Here are the links for Audible and Amazon:
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"I know that I am complicit," says Nathaniel Popkin in the new episode of the podcast Stand Up! with Pete Dominick. "It's truly a weight on me."
He's talking, of course, of the responsibility all of us bear for the climate crisis, the subject of his book TO REACH THE SPRING. And he relates this long-term danger to our present experience with the pandemic. Nathaniel's portion begins at 1:17:29. Some other snippets:
#climatecrisis #climatechange #globalwarming #COVID @standupwithpetedominick In a just-published Q&A with Jared Jackson of The PEN Ten (PEN America's interview series), Nathaniel Popkin reveals some of the thinking behind his book To Reach the Spring: From Complicity to Consciousness in the Age of Eco-Crisis. Here's an excerpt: [Q:] In the book, you highlight our complicity and potential for apathy, going on to write, “Not facing known and well-understood acts of destruction may be the moral failure of our time.” I turn one of your opening questions back to you. In face of the climate crisis, what is life worth? ![]() For us, the main event of 2020 was the publication of Nathaniel Popkin's deeply thoughtful book-length essay on the climate crisis: TO REACH THE SPRING. In the few weeks since the book launched, he's done a variety of interviews. If you like moving images, here are three video appearances available online: Grid Magazine video interview Walden Woods Project, Zoom discussion with Gail Straub: The Jefferson Exchange radio show Our favorite, though, remains the static, words-only interview on the blog of Deborah Kalb. It's really one of the best Q&As we've ever read. #climatecrisis #climatechange #climateaction #globalwarming "The Belgian prime minister Alexander de Croo said recently, in discussing the spike in Covid cases in Europe: 'We [are] dangerous to each other. We have to have the courage to admit it.' What de Croo says about Covid applies to our paralysis in the face of eco-crisis. The paralysis comes in part from lack of courage. We can’t face the ways we are dangerous to each other. Because we can’t face them we aren’t able to act." [Emphasis added.]
This is Nathaniel Popkin discussing TO REACH THE SPRING with Deborah Kalb. Read the whole interview for more insights. Today is the official launch day, and the book is available wherever serious literature is sold. (Probably not at your local supermarket. But once you load up on carbs, you can head over to an independent bookstore.) #climatejustice #climatecrisis #climatechange #climateaction [If you missed it live, the interview is now archived on YouTube.] Leading up to next week's official release of To Reach the Spring, Grid Magazine has posted a video clip from an interview with author Nathaniel Popkin. Click on the image to see the clip. For the full interview, go to Grid's Facebook or Instagram feed on Friday, November 27, at noon. Meanwhile, Green Energy Times has published a glowing review in its November issue (p. 27). Here's an excerpt: Popkin cites capitalism as “invading every aspect of life on earth” where green shoots of concern and demand for action are smothered by an unending torrent of disinformation from powerful multinationals. These are led by the fossil fuel industry and supported by enabling politicians, that cast doubt on the very reality of the crisis facing our planet. To mark Native American Heritage Day coming up on November 27, we want to highlight a portion of To Reach the Spring, Nathaniel Popkin’s new book on the environmental crisis. Unfortunately, this is not a feel-good story about friendly Pilgrims and Wampanoag but rather a tale of capitalism gone amuck in Brazil. There are two sides of “modernity,” Popkin tells us. There’s modernity as destruction, evidenced by the way our great industrial advances have polluted the Earth, produced mass extinctions of animal species, and threatened our own existence. But as a counterpoint, we can also see modernity as hope: namely, the hope that technology will save our asses from this latest crisis, just as it has previously saved us from many types of disease, suffering, and ignorance. For Popkin, this distinction sets the stage for the story of the Paiter Suruí: In the Amazon rainforest of northwest Brazil, the Paiter Suruí indigenous people had lived without interaction with Europeans until 1969, adapting with the flora and fauna of their forest home for thousands of years. European contact inevitably brought disease, eviscerating the Paiter Suruí population, which dropped from 10,000 to 240. Lumber mills and ranchers moved in. Government policy encouraged economic growth (and return on investment) at all costs. Though Almir Suruí had his own doubts about the program, it looked promising at first. It might actually work! But then the Paiter Suruí carbon offset credit project became the target of a powerful Catholic Church–backed indigenous group, CIMI, whose leaders attacked the project as commodification of nature. Though they had the same goal to save the rainforest as Almir Suruí, the CIMI activists saw the project squarely as an example of modernity as destruction, the wealthy earning on the backs of the poor. As Popkin makes abundantly clear throughout the book, a major adjunct of environmental destruction is the injustice done to those who live in the areas being degraded. Indigenous peoples whose lands have resources that others want to exploit. Low-income folks who can’t fight back against a polluting power plant or pipeline. People who can’t simply pack up and leave because there’s lead or PFAS in their drinking water.
Yet there’s really no us-versus-them here. The truism can’t be stated too often: We’re all in this together. President-elect Biden, it’s time to act on the eco-crisis. Long past time. #NativeAmerican #IndigenousPeople #globalwarming #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice Here are the first two events for Nathaniel Popkin's new book, To Reach the Spring, an incisive, passionate, and philosophical examination of the climate crisis and what we can do about it:
Though we haven't yet reached the publication date, Amazon has apparently jumped the gun, making the book available now. On Wednesday, 10/28/20, at 7:00 p.m., author David Hallock Sanders will present a Zoom reading from his novel BUSARA ROAD, under the auspices of the Swarthmore Alumni Association. Click the image to register.
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