Wendy Sarkissian PhD
ENDORSEMENTS
When Wendy Sarkissian was my doctoral student thirty years ago, she first asked whether planners could be encouraged truly to care for Nature.
In Hold Fast, she asks a harder question still: whether we can grieve, honestly and together, both the people and the Earth we have lost. I recognize in this book a necessary companion: one that recognizes the importance of climate grief yet never abandons hope.
Peter Newman AO
John Curtin Distinguished Professor, Curtin University Sustainability Policy Institute, Western Australia; Lead Author for Transport, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Wendy Sarkissian’s original concept of the Reconciled Ecological Self is one of the most important psychological and ethical concepts to emerge in this century.
Her book, Hold Fast, is an incomparable gift to a grieving world.
Perhaps it is even the Manual for Living with Defeat that Leonard Cohen would have written had his muse allowed.
John Seed OAM
Deep ecologist, founder of the Rainforest Information Centre, Australia
For more information about my first book in the Twilight River Trilogy
Creeksong: One Woman Sings the Climate Blues (2023/2026)
please visit the Creeksong website:
www.creeksongbook.com
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