The Earth Said Remember Me — Jason Dove Mark in conversation with Julia Sklar

Co-sponsored by Long Now Boston and Brookline Booksmith: a rallying cry and resistance manual from one of the leaders breathing new life into the environmental movement. As the climate emergency worsens and biodiversity shrinks, we humans get used to it — we adapt, we normalize, we forget. Scientists call this “shifting baseline syndrome” and warn that it’s why we are increasingly sleepwalking toward disaster.

In this positive and inspiring manifesto, environmental activist and longtime editor-in-chief of Sierra magazine Jason Dove Mark offers an antidote, focusing on four simple but powerful rules that everyone can use to resist environmental amnesia:

• Go outside.

• Bear witness.

• Make a record.

• Pass it on.

Jason will be in conversation with Boston-based science journalist Julia Sklar, formerly his colleague at Sierra, where she served as story editor commissioning coverage of climate science, public health, environmental justice, conservation, and Indigenous affairs.

Join the conversation and be part of the solution. Audience participation is encouraged.