Learning to Live in the Dark: Essays in a Time of Catastrophe Jasminne Mendez Philip Vera Cruz

Philip Vera Cruz

and that mischief lives within all of us

small trucks

That’s all sixteen-year-old Rashad is looking for at the corner bodega

As tensions rise sky high

Learning to Live in the Dark: Essays in a Time of Catastrophe Jasminne Mendez Philip Vera CruzIn these hard hitting and deeply personal essays, Nation writer and veteran activist Wen Stephenson traces his search for resolve in the face of our converging climate and political catastrophes. After three decades of failed international efforts to avoid catastrophic climate change, progressive visions of a better world are now increasingly circumscribed by ecological and social breakdown. The geophysical forces unleashed by carbon fueled global