SAVING OURSELVES
“Offers useful insights into the increasingly disruptive climate campaigns spreading around the world. . . . A handbook for activists in a world facing more ‘climate shocks’, such as heatwaves, floods and wildfires.”
– Pilita Clark, Financial Times
In Saving Ourselves, “hope is a spur, a prod, an uncomfortable goad. And imagining a better future is a brave and even necessary act.”
– Alexis Soloski, New York Times
“There’s no denying Fisher’s ultimate assertion: ‘The future is up to us.’”
– David Vetter, Forbes
“Vital. . . . Fisher highlights a number of individuals and organizations modeling how we can collectively act, this Earth Day and every day, to fight for our planet and future, making her book as practically helpful as it is philosophically inspiring.”
– Ben Railton, Saturday Evening Post
“Fisher’s book is important, accurate and clear eyed about the challenges we face and the big efforts needed to save our selves.”
– Simon Cocking, Irish Tech News
“Completely avoiding risk is not an option. Fisher’s sober analysis of the climate crisis can help readers determine how much risk they can manage in meeting it.”
– Michael Svoboda, Yale Climate Connections
” Excellent, powerful, urgent.”
– John Palfrey, President, MacArthur Foundation
“A genuine treasure-trove for those who want to take a deep dive into the subject….I thoroughly recommend Dana’s Saving Ourselves. It isn’t a mere catalogue of actions past, but a much more valuable quantitative and qualitative assessment of the effectiveness and suitability of different methods employed by climate activists. It helps us plan a route out of this mess.”
– Niall Enright, “Key Books on Climate Change“
“There’s a growing number of books addressing the climate crisis and we now have a good technical understanding of what we have to do, as a society, to avoid the worst impacts. But there has been much less focus on the – more urgent – question of how to make the required changes happen. Fisher’s illuminating and insightful book helps fill this critical gap in our knowledge and is a must-read for anyone with an interest in a safe future.”
– Dr. Charlie Gardner Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent
“Saving Ourselves is about the great awakening that is happening right now to the risks we face on a rapidly warming planet. Read it and you will understand the history of the climate fight, the forces that are shaping it today, and the challenges the movement will confront as it grows in size and urgency. Saving Ourselves will inspire you take to the streets and fight for a better world.”
– Jeff Goodell, author of The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
“Few questions could be more important than how to quickly build an effective resistance to the fossil fuel industry; this volume offers some vital clues and insights and will be a help to many activists!”
– Bill McKibben, author The End of Nature
“In a crowded landscape of books about climate change, this one stands out by asking two key questions: Have we made enough progress? And what should we do going forward? The answer to the first question is clearly no. Despite three decades of climate negotiations, both the US and the world are far behind where we need to be on climate action, and going forward, we need to be much more organized. Taking a lesson from the history of the civil rights movement, Fisher suggests that we can create a stronger climate movement by building on existing community structures—such as churches and labor unions—and taking advantage of the climate shocks that are already occurring with increasing frequency to channel moral outrage into meaningful action. An important, original, and thought-provoking book.”
– Naomi Oreskes, coauthor of The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market
Dana R Fisher 