We’ve known for decades that burning carbon on a global scale is toxic for the planet, but due to inaction we are now tasked with very quickly restoring order to the ecosystem without involvement from systems which seek to organize power against the people. We need to communicate ideas that might feel unacceptable by elite, corporate cultural norms, but are necessary to ensure a healthy planet. This work must be initiated on an individual level – because we know that history has showed us time and time again that the governments, corporations, and mass movements can be to easily diverted to serve the interests of those who assume power. If we don’t get this right, we might never have the opportunity again.

The average American can name over 100 corporate logos, but only 10 plants. Robin Wall Kimmerer asks us, “is it a surprise that we have accepted a political system that grants person-hood to corporations and no status at all for wild rice and redwoods?” Life takes care of life – we must know how to care for plants and learn their names. When you take the time to study life, it rewards you. Writers, designers and everyone who creates or thinks about the future can imagine a future designed on the principals of intersectional-sustainability: social, economic and environmental.