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Lydia Millet’s ‘We Loved It All: A Memory of Life’ examines the climate crisis from a distance but soars in its exploration of how language can provoke empathy and action.

In part as a result of watching species after species go extinct, climate change burnout, in which people are overwhelmed by the severity of the climate crisis, and climate doomerism, in which people see climate change as irreversible and destruction as inevitable, are both increasing.

It is unquestionably painful to face the truth about the global climate crisis, and emotionally logical to avoid the let-down of investing in a cause without seeing significant or meaningful change.

But he’s in such manic distress over the climate crisis that he’s acting crazier than anyone around him.

"I just came to appreciate the climate crisis is the greatest risk to all our health and anything else I can be doing is meaningless and the most meaningful thing I can do is to try to defeat that," he said.