The Methow Valley is a case study for how relentlessly climate change can pummel a community. Over the past six years, back-to-back wildfires and intense smoke events have devastated the Valley and wreaked havoc on residents' mental health.
To survive the climate crisis, Jedediah Purdy argues that we will need to establish “commonwealth” values to animate a way of living and relating to one another that’s not zero-sum.