# As If We Were Staying

Mostly trying to make my parents, Carl Sagan and Octavia Butler, proud.

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## [The Three Meanings Behind My Book Title: "As If We Were Staying"](https://spencerrscott.substack.com/p/the-three-meanings-behind-my-book)

_2026-07-28 · Spencer R. Scott_

We, the rootless, we, the human species, we, as mortals

## [Prickly Pear](https://spencerrscott.substack.com/p/prickly-pear)

_2026-07-21 · Spencer R. Scott_

10-minute Solarpunk short story I wrote for a reading at our farm

## [How AI Atrophies our Relationship to The World, To Ourselves](https://spencerrscott.substack.com/p/attention-as-the-certainty-of-care)

_2026-06-25 · Spencer R. Scott_

What I learned about attention from officiating a wedding and attending a writing conference

## [𝑴𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝑹𝒖𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒆: The Importance of Contemplating Collapse](https://spencerrscott.substack.com/p/the-importance-of-contemplating-collapse)

_2026-05-12 · Spencer R. Scott_

The future is ours to make

## [Where Giants Will Stand](https://spencerrscott.substack.com/p/where-giants-will-stand)

_2026-04-15 · Spencer R. Scott_

A short story that won extinction rebellion's 2021 Solarpunk Showcase

## [With disfiguring rage, what do we do? What action can we take?](https://spencerrscott.substack.com/p/with-disfiguring-rage-what-do-we)

_2026-04-08 · Spencer R. Scott_

The question on everyone's mind

## [The World That Shaped Us Is Ending](https://spencerrscott.substack.com/p/quit-your-job-start-a-farm-write)

_2026-03-13 · Spencer R. Scott_

On writing a book about climate, capitalism, and becoming who the future needs us to be

## [No re-arrangement of words is going to stack those bricks](https://spencerrscott.substack.com/p/no-re-arrangement-of-words-is-going)

_2026-02-05 · Spencer R. Scott_

The year of the producer is upon us

## [Tracking $400b in Climate Finance to Identify Critical Funding Gaps](https://spencerrscott.substack.com/p/tracking-400b-in-climate-finance)

_2025-09-25 · Spencer R. Scott_

An update and capstone of my three years at One Earth

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_2025-09-25 · **Sponsored**_

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## [What our local dam removal means for you](https://spencerrscott.substack.com/p/what-our-local-dam-removal-means)

_2025-07-02 · Spencer R. Scott_

How local drama over a dam removal highlights the costs and intricacies of climate adaptation