About Climate Cat

Climate Cat is a playful guide who appears throughout The Crisis Is Here, bringing some lightheartedness to the bleak conversation about climate change and its impact on our health.

He started as a joker but evolved into a teacher, mystic, and poet.

His mission is to help navigate the chaos in a calm and approachable way.

Climate Cat was born when the skies turned orange, and the power grid started to fail.

He heard Nature’s cry for justice and the mourning song of what we’ve lost.

He is a responder, a witness, a bridge.

He remembers the world before it cracked: rivers that ran clear, silence without smoke, children who could play outdoors.

Memory is his compass.

He watched the wild things disappear, people get sick, and storms form and attack.

Climate Cat fights the systems that criminalize healing. That outlaw the truth.

He navigates emergency rooms without power, shelters without air filters, and communities without access to care.

He has become a scholar of the Anthropocene, fluent in heat domes, vector-borne illness, and the language of smog.

But he’s also a poet, carrying stories from elders and whispers from the trees.

He knows that resilience is relational, and survival is a collective act.

In every smoky horizon, he looks for light.

In every displaced person, he sees the whole planet.

Climate Cat is here to prepare us for the work.

Because Liberty carried the torch. And Climate Cat is Liberty’s knight.