By David S. Wallace, New Yorker, September 15, 2021

PHOTO: People walk along a flooded street in New Jersey after Hurricane Ida

An emerging genre of climate memoirs searches for narratives that will not only convince readers of the crisis at hand but galvanize them to do something about it.

Many of us readily accept the fact that our way of life is destroying our environment, but do little about it.

Early one morning in January, 2017, a group of environmental activists in their twenties piled into a rental van and drove from Midtown Manhattan to Albany. For weeks, they’d been planning a sit-in at the state capitol, to demand the passage of significant climate legislation. Inside, everything goes smoothly: the protesters walk past an unsuspecting security guard and, as practiced, link hands and sit down.

Daniel Sherrell, one of the action’s organizers, describes the uncanny feeling of making himself heard that day, in his new memoir, “Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World” …..

Source ~ https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/can-we-find-a-new-way-to-tell-the-story-of-climate-change