Jason Dove Mark with Lynda Mapes

Science

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 his new book, The Earth Said Remember Me: How to Revive Our Memories and Restore the Planet, environmental activist and longtime editor-in-chief of Sierra magazine Jason Dove Mark offers an antidote. By focusing on four simple but powerful rules, everyone can resist environmental amnesia: Go outside. Bear witness. Make a record. Pass it on. Mark makes the case for easy, everyday practices that can help us “remember the Earth” and support environmental conservation, restoration, and rewilding.

With examples of citizen scientists, birdwatchers, mountain climbers, and fishermen across the country who are putting them into practice, Jason Dove Mark provides a hopeful, achievable prescription for protecting the planet, one citizen at a time.

“A hope­ful man­u­al for stay­ing engaged in pro­tect­ing the plan­et … A wel­come anti­dote to dooms­day reports.” -Pub­lish­ers Weekly

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