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TED Talk on Saving Ourselves
My TED Talk on Saving Ourselves is Live! Tune in to learn why we ALL need to be apocalyptic optimists: Prepared for the climate shocks that are coming and ready to rally as activists, disruptors, and bridge-builders to save ourselves from the climate crisis. As COP29 continues to show the weaknesses of the climate regime…
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Waking Up In Trump’s America 2.0
On the day after the 2016 election, I published a reflection at HuffPost. “Waking Up In Trump’s America And Watching The Ocean Rise” looked at the climate consequences of what candidate Trump had promised. Since I’m still processing the outcome from last night (Trump was just announced as the 47th President of the US 7…
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Cultivating Resilience through Climate Corps
The last chapter of Saving Ourselves presents three recommendations for how we should focus our collective efforts to get us to the other side of the climate crisis most effectively (check it the book if you’re interested in learning more). The last recommendation is to cultivate resilience: “Because mitigation efforts have so far failed to…
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Thinking More about Protest and Repression
Last night, we got to observe textbook examples of the ways that peaceful protest (including civil disobedience) can escalate into so much more. In NYC, we saw classic case of police repression, with images of NYPD in riot gear storming the Hamilton Building on Columbia’s campus, as well as the encampment on CUNY’s campus. On…
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Highlights from the CA leg of the book tour
I’m just back from the California leg of the Saving Ourselves Book Tour, which was amazing. Highlights included talking at BookSoup on the Sunset Strip, the conversation with Isaias Hernandez at Occidental College (and the wine and conversation with friends and activists afterwards), the surprise guests to my talk at the Commonwealth Club in San…
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3 Myths about Climate Activists
I just published a piece in The Conversation that builds on the findings from Saving Ourselves to talk about 3 common myths about the climate movement and climate activism. This piece is particularly important as Earth Month gets underway and activists take to the streets, boardrooms, car shows and much more to raise awareness about…
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Highlights from the start of the Saving Ourselves Book Tour.
In the first few weeks since the book came out, I’ve had the privilege of speaking with an amazing group of people at universities and institutions, as well as with a number of climate groups that are working in the climate movement. Clockwise from top Left with: Almeta Cooper at the Library of Congress, Dharna…
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Saving Ourselves is HERE!
Just in time for the formal release of the book today, Saving Ourselves was discussed, along with two other environment books in The Financial Times on 2/12/2024. Check out the full piece to learn more about how the book “Offers useful insights into the increasingly disruptive climate campaigns spreading around the world. . . .…
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Saving Ourselves is going on Tour
With the Saving Ourselves release date just around the corner, I am posting the current book tour schedule (with updates and new dates). I’m very excited to join these amazing scholars, journalists, and activists to talk about the book, its findings, and its implications!! For details on specific events, tickets, and registration, see my events page. If…
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Happy 2024: Here Comes Saving Ourselves!
As climate scientists debate the exact amount that Earth has warmed to date and 2023 has officially been documented as the warmest year ever recorded, Saving Ourselves is about to arrive. I received my personal copy from Columbia University Press on New Year’s Eve (see the official unwrapping here). For anyone who preordered books, your copy should…
Dana R Fisher 