I’m Writing to Help Our Planet

By Whitney Brown

My favorite thing to write is a travel essay.

That’s because travel writers never take a trip just once. We get to live every excursion over and over: once as we travel, twice as we write, again and again as we revise. At every step, we wring more from our experiences.

But I often wonder how, on a climate-changed planet, I can justify writing about my trips. 

So I bring climate themes into my essays. I feel good about openly addressing the issue.

And yet, on my...