Dear Tyee Reader, On Dec. 2, we announced an ambitious goal to bring on 500 more monthly supporters of The Tyee before 2020. We’re happy to announce that we are not yet halfway through the duration of the campaign, but we’ve already passed 50% of our goal! If you’ve been thinking about contributing, but haven’t made the plunge, we want to offer something that will make it an even better deal. For today only, if you sign up to contribute $15 per month or more you will receive a copy of Changing Tides: An Ecologist's Journey to Make Peace with the Anthropocene by Alejandro Frid: https://support.thetyee.ca?campaign=changingtides Canadian addresses only (sorry international friends. Shipping costs are nutty). Make sure you sign up before midnight Pacific Standard Time tonight (Dec. 13) to get a copy of the book. From the publisher’s website: As humanity marches on, causing mass extinctions and destabilizing the climate, the future of Earth will very much reflect the stories that Homo sapiens decides to jettison or accept today into our collective identity. At this pivotal moment in history, the most important story we can be telling ourselves is that humans are not inherently destructive. In Changing Tides, Alejandro Frid tackles the big questions: who, or what, represents our essential selves, and what stories might allow us to shift the collective psyche of industrial civilization in time to avert the worst of the climate and biodiversity crises? In seeking the answers, Frid draws from a deep well of personal experience and that of Indigenous colleagues, finding a glimmer of hope in Indigenous cultures that, despite the ravishes of colonialism, have for thousands of years developed intentional and socially complex practices for resource management that epitomize sustainability. Ultimately, Frid argues, merging scientific perspectives with Indigenous knowledge might just help us change the story we tell ourselves about who we are and where we could go. Changing Tides is for everyone concerned with the irrevocable changes we have unleashed upon our planet and how we might steer towards a more benign Anthropocene. Get your copy of Changing Tides when you sign up before midnight tonight to contribute $15 per month or more, using this specific link: https://support.thetyee.ca?campaign=changingtides In appreciation, Jeanette, Robyn, and the entire Tyee team | |
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