The discourse about climate change, with some 3,000 books published in 2023 alone, is plainly overwhelming. Those hungering for a more palatable bite might sample Lorne Fitch’s Travels up the Creek, which focuses on environmental degradation in Alberta. Like other climate change books, this one aims for an awakening among readers. For Fitch, this is a cri de cœur to protect what remains and perhaps mitigate some of the damage. “We should be scared, scared spitless in fact, of our current course,” he writes in his introduction.
An award-winning conservationist with a penchant for Aldo Leopold quotes, Fitch worked as a biologist with the Alberta Forest Service for thirty years. His storytelling skills, which render science accessible and meaningful, are central to his writing for conservation organizations and popular audiences alike. As with his first book, Streams of Consequence: Dispatches from the Conservation World (part of that 2023...
Barbara Sibbald is a journalist and fiction writer who gets out in nature as often as possible.
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