Ayana Elizabeth Johnson What If We Get This Right?

Published: June 9, 2022, 6:05 p.m.

b'Amidst all of the perspectives and arguments around our ecological future, this much is true: we are not in the natural world \\u2014 we are part of it. The next-generation marine biologist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson would let that reality of belonging show us the way forward. She loves the ocean. She loves human beings. And she\\u2019s animated by questions emerging from those loves \\u2014 and from the science she does \\u2014 which we scarcely know how to take seriously amidst so much demoralizing bad ecological news. This hour, Krista draws out her creative and pragmatic inquiry: Could we let ourselves be led by what we already know how to do, and by what we have it in us to save? What, she asks, if we get this right?'