Rob Lewis is a poet, writer and activist working to give voice to the more-than-human world. His writings have appeared in Resilience, Dark Mountain, Atlanta Review, Counterflow and others, as well as the anthologies Singing the Salmon Home and For the Love of Orcas. He’s also author of the poetry/essay collection The Silence of Vanishing Things. Lately, he’s been writing about how the climate isn’t a machine with an engineering fix, but a living system that only can only be healed through restraint and restoration, at https://
Stagtine: Review
So what does happen when a family, with four hundred acres of historically abused land on their hands, decides to let go and let the land lead the way? To find that out, you’ll have to buy the book and read it yourself, which I wholeheartedly recommend.
July 22, 2024
When Life Enters the Equation
On this planet, life is central, as breath by breath we are reminded. So it is with Earth’s climate. Our language, our science, our conversations, our media reports, our poems, our songs, our demands should reflect that.
July 8, 2024
The Climate According to Numbers
The point is, the physical science basis is a term intended for science, and it makes most sense within those boundaries where its meaning and limitations are understood. It’s when it crosses the border to society that things get weird, where you suddenly you wake up to discover everything from forests to farms to whales have been reduced to carbon quantities, and life itself is being financialized.
June 18, 2024
Now For a Little Climate Perspective
When we speak of saving the climate, it’s really the Holocene climate we are trying to save, and the biological richness holding it up.
June 5, 2024
The Climate Beneath Our Feet
What happened to the two-legged approach to climate? The land leg proved “incommodious,” as Millan puts, so the two were split. The CO2 leg, championed by the IPCC, strode into the climate spotlight to save humanity, while the land-change leg, housed under the IGBP, remained behind for further research.
May 21, 2024
Science Conference Sunrise
This knowledge, about Earth’s capacity for regulation and renewal, is still just cresting the horizon of human understanding, but as with a sunrise, the Earth is rolling us towards it. It feels inevitable.
May 14, 2024