The great turning
“Even thinking about this is really scary,” Courtney Howard — an emergency room physician, vice-chair of the Global Climate and Health Alliance, mother, dancer and writer — tells me from her kitchen overlooking Yellowknife’s Back Bay. Talking about it “helps everybody realize: ‘I’m not alone.’ It normalizes those feelings, and when we normalize and are vulnerable with one another … it actually naturally brings us into the community that we need to solve problems.”