Dana R Fisher

We’ve known for decades that climate change is an existential crisis. For just as long, we’ve seen the complete failure of our institutions to rise to the challenge. Governments have struggled to meet even modest goals. Fossil fuel interests maintain a stranglehold on political and economic power. Even though we have seen growing concern from everyday people, civil society has succeeded only in pressuring decision makers to adopt watered-down policies. All the while, the climate crisis worsens. Is there any hope of achieving the systemic change we need?

Saving Ourselves presents a deep-dive into how we got into this mess and what it will take to get to the other side. In short, it focuses on how people power is our most likely way through the climate crisis and concludes with advice (based on years of research in the trenches) about how we can take back power and save ourselves.