“The best arguments in the world won’t change a person’s mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.” —Psychologist/grad student Adam Appich in Richard Powers’ novel The Overstory
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Interestingly, The Overstory is itself a novel that is trying to do for climate urgency what all the scientific arguments in the world haven’t (while simultaneously being a “good story,” which it most definitely is).
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Sometimes, when a book *really* makes me feel the comfort of communion and shared experience, there’s something nourishing about it, not like the real thing would be, but as close as you can get without it.pic.twitter.com/6eW8Mv5uZ7
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