We are Climate Activists. Don’t Call Us Grannies.
by Kathleen Dean Moore | Feb 15, 2024 | Climate Action, Philosophy
An Inside Climate News article about the strong, experienced women in the climate struggle calls us “Grannies.” I strenuously object. Don’t call us Grannies. We are white-haired women who are doing everything we can to stop the suicidal cruelty of the fossil-fuel...News Archive
Google “Animal Interludes” to hear wonderful writers read excerpts from Kathleen’s recent book, Earth’s Wild Music: Robin Kimmerer on the common murre and the grey wolf, Jane Hirschfield on the albatross, Aimee Nezhukumatathil on meadowlarks, and many more.
Catch Kathleen at the Corvallis Arts Center opening of the Wildfire + Water exhibition, May 15, 4 pm.
The Center for Humans and Nature has just released a set of books of essays about the four elements. In Bk. iii. Water, you’ll find Kathleen’s fiercely beautiful essay, “When Water Becomes a Weapon: Fracking, Climate Change, and the Violation of Human Rights.”
Read Kathleen’s new op-ed, a sly argument that hurricanes should be named, not for innocent Debbies and Ernestos, but for the fossil fuel executives who are actually increasing the fury of storms.
Hear Kathleen talk about a human-rights strategy to combat climate wrongs, podcast on the New Books Network, available here.
And you’ll like the new book, The Heart of the Wild, with Kathleen’s essay, “In Feral Land is the Preservation of the World.”
Hear Kathleen talk about a human-rights strategy to combat climate wrongs, podcast on the New Books Network, available here.
Announcing the release of Animal Dignity, with Kathleen’s essay “The Heart of the Scorpion,” about the moral power of the will to live.
On a new Spring Creek podcast, Kathleen tells a story about how W.S. Merwin’s prose poem, “Unchopping a Tree,” helped her and her students think through the question that possesses us all: How can one heart hold both a deep love for the natural world and the knowledge that it is being destroyed?
If you are looking for a holiday gift for your nature-loving and/or environmental-activist friends, please think of Kathleen’s Take Heart: Encouragement for Earth’s Weary Lovers.
Join Kathleen Moore and Charles Goodrich in a discussion of his new novel, Weave Me a Crooked Basket, Monday, November 20 @ 7pm (PT) Powell’s City of Books
Here’s Kathleen’s hard-hitting article, “Clean Natural Gas is a Dirty Deception.”
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment just published Kathleen’s “The perilous and important art of definition: the case of the old-growth forest.” Read it here.
Earth’s Wild Music is a Chicago Review of Books Must-Read Book of the Month. Read the review here.
Read Kathleen’s new article, “How Big Oil is Manipulating How You Think about Climate Change,’ in Salon.com.
Kathleen and her colleague, Michael P. Nelson, apologize to the world for the damage done by racist and cruel Enlightenment philosophies. See “Did Philosophy Ruin the Earth? A philosopher’s letter of apology to the world” in Salon.
Hear Kathleen speak about “Gratitude as a Way of Life” in the Natural History Institute’s Reciprocal Healing series.
Hear a new composition for English horn, based on Kathleen’s glacier essay, “The Sound of Mountains Melting,” from Earth’s Wild Music, written and performed by Chris Zatarain.
Three of Kathleen’s essays – “Swallows, Falling,” “Common Murre,” and “Dawn Chorus” are published in a new collection that celebrates birds, Dawn Songs, edited by Jamie K. Reaser and J. Drew Lanham.