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WARMTH
Coming of Age at the End of Our World
From a millennial climate activist comes an exploration of how young people live in the shadow of catastrophe.
WARMTH is a new kind of book about climate change - not a prescription or a polemic, but an intensely personal examination of how it feels to imagine a future under its weight, written from inside the youth-led climate movement itself. It is a critical excavation of the ways we talk about the climate crisis - at the national level, in our communities, and to ourselves - and a memoir of the ongoing struggle to sustain the difficult work of fighting "the Problem".
Though it addresses an issue of global concern, WARMTH arises from a specific time and place: post-Sandy New York. Weaving sit-ins and snowstorms, synagogues and subway tunnels, Daniel Sherrell delves into the questions that feel most urgent to young people at our current crossroads. He explores how we conceptualize the crisis, the ethical implications of having children, our changing relationship with time, and the metaphors that mediate our individual and collective emotional responses - breaking "climate" out of its discursive box in the process. In seeking new ways to understand and respond to these forces that feel so far out of our control, WARMTH lays bare the common stakes we face, and illuminates new sources of faith in our shared humanity.
Daniel Sherrell is a climate organizer who most recently coordinated NY Renews, a coalition of 130 labor unions, environmental organizations, and community groups working to move New York State to 100% renewable energy. His writing has been supported by a Fulbright scholarship in Creative Writing, a residency at Mesa Refuge, the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, and a grant from the Lois Roth Endowment. He is a graduate of Brown University and lives in New York City.
Though it addresses an issue of global concern, WARMTH arises from a specific time and place: post-Sandy New York. Weaving sit-ins and snowstorms, synagogues and subway tunnels, Daniel Sherrell delves into the questions that feel most urgent to young people at our current crossroads. He explores how we conceptualize the crisis, the ethical implications of having children, our changing relationship with time, and the metaphors that mediate our individual and collective emotional responses - breaking "climate" out of its discursive box in the process. In seeking new ways to understand and respond to these forces that feel so far out of our control, WARMTH lays bare the common stakes we face, and illuminates new sources of faith in our shared humanity.
Daniel Sherrell is a climate organizer who most recently coordinated NY Renews, a coalition of 130 labor unions, environmental organizations, and community groups working to move New York State to 100% renewable energy. His writing has been supported by a Fulbright scholarship in Creative Writing, a residency at Mesa Refuge, the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, and a grant from the Lois Roth Endowment. He is a graduate of Brown University and lives in New York City.
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Published 2021-08-03 by Penguin Trade Paperback Original |