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"With a crisis as colossal as climate change, reactions are certain to be more profound than the speaker in Frost's poem."
That's Daniel Marie's take on Robert Frost's "Gathering Leaves," a poem he's been reading for a few years now as a way to better understand climate change and its effects, per a press release.
In the poem, a speaker reflects on the task of gathering leaves: "I make rustling and harvest and of all day," he writes.
"Often, the speakers' efforts seem futile and the leaves themselves seem to lose value."
But, he adds, "the speaker's efforts and the decaying leaves still have lasting value as they are all part of the ongoing processes of Nature."
And just as Frost's poem offers "human ingenuity and Nature's sacred and magnificent forces" to mitigate climate change, so, too, can solutions be found, Marie writes.
Among them: "mass production of electric vehicles and generating renewable wind and solar energy," as well as restoring hundreds of millions of hectares of abandoned farmland and conserving and restoring tropical forests.
"Other solutions, like restoring hundreds of millions of hectares of abandoned farmland and conserving and restoring tropical forests, when combined could sequester a total of hundreds of gig
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