Climate guilt distracts us from the systemic changes that matter most.

Individual actions can indeed help, but political action changes the entire system.

Greenwashing protects the corporate status quo, not the planet.

Our love for the planet is the strongest fuel for lasting climate action.

The world is on fire. Literally. From Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh, Scotland, to the Canadian wildfires impacting North America, the planet is in a deep crisis. Record temperatures in Europe have led to tens of thousands of heat-related deaths. Add the geopolitical tensions across the planet, and the news gives us good reason to be anxious and uncertain.

In his 2024 release Terrible Beauty, Auden Schendler outlines our complicity in the climate crisis. At the same time, he places even more responsibility on the corporations that sell us toxic products in the first place. As a long-time climate activist, Schendler claims not only that the environmental movement is failing, but that it is reinforcing the ineffective, entrenched systems that we need to reorganize to make the difference.

Drawing on 25 years of experience in corporate sustainability leadership at Aspen One, Schendler shows that voluntary emissions reductions, individual carbon footprints, and corporate........

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