And here's the best book I've read in like forever! I keep taking notes, underlining things, highlighting things! Dr. McDuff teaches at a nearby college, Warren Wilson College in Black Mountain NC
Love Your
Mother, by Mallory
McDuff (a professor at Warren Wilson College). Broadleaf Books, 2023.
This book
encompasses a lot of people and a lot of ideas currently being worked on in the
USA. It is a compilation of 50 women’s stories who are active in climate change
actions. They live in all 50 states of the USA. There is emphasis on BIPOC
women. Their ages vary as much as their lifestyles. Each woman is given just a
vignette of 3 pages, and that’s enough for me to have many links to go further
to learn more about them or their movements. I will look at books, TED talks,
and the actions of different organizations. These are scientists, teachers,
students, investors, authors, and many mothers, wives, partners and daughters.
I enjoyed that Dr. McDuff closes her book with, “Looking Forward” toward a
hopeful future dealing with climate change. There’s an extensive bibliography
as well as resources for each of the biographies.
I enjoyed hearing this talk by a climate scientist.
