Editor, The Revelator @therevelator.org. Covering the extinction crisis, wildlife, climate change and environmental justice. https://linktr.ee/johnrplatt
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When the Butterflies Come Home Again by Kathleen Dean Moore
A philosopher shares an environmental success story that speaks to the moral necessity of ongoing work for wild beings. https://therevelator.org/fenders-blue-butterflies/
A powerful, must-read essay we published today:
When the Butterflies Come Home Again
"How do you hold both truths at the same time — the horror and the hope? How can you accept the truth that destroys hope and at the same time hold the hope that may be the only route toward recovery?" @therevelator.org
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“Silence is not neutrality—it is participation in the outcome.”
New commentary in @therevelator.org examines how history is rarely erased all at once. More often, it fades through omission, caution, and the narrowing of whose stories are allowed to remain visible. Memory matters.
A philosopher tells an environmental success story that speaks to the moral necessity of ongoing work for wild beings.
Pride is often celebrated as progress.
But progress has a memory.
The Great Forgetting, a new piece in @therevelator.org, examines what happens when civil rights history, environmental history, and the voices behind both are softened, narrowed, or erased.
This Pride Month, memory matters.
A philosopher tells an environmental success story that speaks to the moral necessity of ongoing work for wild beings.
There's no need to keep a lawn green therevelator.org/turning-lawn.... In fact there's often no need for a conventional lawn at all!
Learn more about the wildly successful Roadless Rule via esteemed WELC Wildlands and Wildlife Program Director Sarah McMillan's op-ed in @therevelator.org here:
The Two Words Giving Me Hope — Even As the Trump Administration Dismantles More Climate Regulations https://therevelator.org/despite-trump/
New Environmental Books: Spring-to-Summer Reads to Brighten and Enlighten https://therevelator.org/environmental-books-june2026/
How memory, civil rights, and environmental history are being quietly erased.
The Great Forgetting -- How memory, civil rights, and environmental history are being quietly erased. #PrideMonth https://therevelator.org/the-great-forgetting/
Whether you decide on a vacation or staycation, plan on finding inspiration in these books about owls, reptiles, climate justice, green gardening, and more.
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The Revelator
How memory, civil rights, and environmental history are being quietly erased.
"We live in a time of cosmic tragedy, when heedless human expansion has pushed many of the planet’s lives beyond bearing. As ecosystems unravel, so do the cultures that depend on them..." writes Kathleen Dean Moore for @therevelator.org. ⬇️
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Annie Leymarie
Western Environmental Law Center
How memory, civil rights, and environmental history are being quietly erased.
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A philosopher tells an environmental success story that speaks to the moral necessity of ongoing work for wild beings.
