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Her Portland friend, Peter, works with performance artists to educate people about how we are ruining the land, and who, like all of her subjects, is attempting “to move beyond cynicism and despair.” In California she meets a North Fork Mono elder whose traditional ecological knowledge is wisely used to combat wildfire and drought.
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Wells visits a raft of other “believers”: urban scouts, professional trackers, a group of environmentalist Christians who practice “watershed discipleship” and a bunch of restoration radicals attempting to reverse desertification in the Middle East’s cradle of civilization. You’re probably as polluted as Fukushima.” You’re probably as devastated as those woods in Oregon. When Wells gets sick at one point, Medrano harangues her: “How healthy do you think you are? You probably look as poisoned as that landscape around you. But for all of Wells’s commitment to visiting those well-meaning eccentrics, she encounters much physical hardship and verbal rebuke. Digging, planting and gathering seed, she rumbles across the country, battling the police and landowners, fueled by her passion for growing native plants in a world badly damaged by land theft and industrial agriculture. But nothing prepared her for Medrano’s tirades, her stories of long-haul travels by horse-drawn wagon and love-fests of planting, walking, arguing, smoking, swearing that made her difficult to fully understand. Wells makes her way to an Oregon town fittingly named Sparta to meet and to travel with the itinerant Finisia Medrano, whose book, “Growing Up in Occupied America,” had whetted Wells’s curiosity. But Wells’s focus is on those who have accepted the reality of our changed planet and are trying to move forward - people like Tao Orion, a permaculture expert who plants “experimental gardens” that will provide an amenable home for species uprooted from their indigenous climates, or Wells’s friend who has started “rewilding” Portland, Ore.
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It is of course necessary to see what a vertiginous decline we have experienced when it comes to the earth’s bounty - we learn here that before contact, the Sierra Miwok in California feasted on 48 different species of greens. To address the problem of desertification, for example, it might be better first to give up on a romanticized, imagined past. In Wells’s long introduction, she states that the “point of no return” is the background as well as the “central prophecy” of her book. Eccentrics, New Agers, old radicals, they struggle to go beyond what the essayist Adam Phillips calls the “nostalgia” of “apocalyptic thinking.” And this is the pull of Wells’s wanderings, both her false starts and satisfying journeys: She never loses sight of her inspired objective, to restore and revive what she refers to as “the promised land.” Sometimes it is, sometimes it misses the mark. Lisa Wells follows a cast of unruly and colorful characters who believe their work on the land and with one another is a healing force. “Believers” is a young woman’s book of wandering at a time when our human footprint on earth matters more than ever. BELIEVERS Making a Life at the End of the World By Lisa Wells