Katharine Wilkinson on 'Climate Wayfinding' — healing ourselves and the planet
Climate leader Wilkinson offers a compassionate framework for navigating ecological grief and turning personal reckoning into collective planetary action.
Why we picked this
Wilkinson's contribution to 'Drawdown' established her scientific credibility — this book adds the emotional and philosophical dimensions the climate conversation desperately needs.
Katharine Wilkinson co-edited “All We Can Save” and was a senior writer for Project Drawdown, which means she has spent years translating climate science into actionable frameworks. “Climate Wayfinding” takes a different approach: instead of policy prescriptions or technological solutions, it starts with the psychological and emotional experience of living through ecological collapse — the grief, the paralysis, the guilt — and asks how individuals can move from ache to agency.
This is not self-help dressed up as environmentalism. Wilkinson grounds her argument in the science of collective action and the history of social movements, making the case that personal transformation and systemic change are not competing priorities but mutually reinforcing ones. The Wharf venue suits the subject — there is something clarifying about discussing planetary futures within sight of rising water.
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