Join colleagues for a discussion centered around the 2025-26 Geneseo Common Read selection, What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures, by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (2024). This positive read supports the Geneseo Ideas That Matter focus on climate change and individual action this year. 

Our summer break reading group will meet virtually, in order to expand access. We will only meet once, to accommodate busy summer schedules.  

Goals for this conversation include discussing the contents of the book itself, as well as how it applies to our mission, values, and instruction at Geneseo. Where might pieces of this book inform your own practices for yourself or your students in the coming year? 

This invitation is open to all. You do not need to have finished the book in order to join us in the meeting. 

A limited number of copies of this book are available for participants through the TLC. Please email Alexis (clifton@geneseo.edu) to request a copy. 

About the book: 
Sometimes the bravest thing we can do while facing an existential crisis is imagine life on the other side. This provocative and joyous book maps an inspiring landscape of possible climate futures.

Through clear-eyed essays and vibrant conversations, infused with data, poetry, and art, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson guides us through solutions and possibilities at the nexus of science, policy, culture, and justice. Visionary farmers and financiers, architects and advocates, help us conjure a flourishing future, one worth the effort it will take—from every one of us, with whatever we have to offer—to create.

If you haven’t yet been able to picture a transformed and replenished world—or to see yourself, your loved ones, and your community in it—this book is for you. If you haven’t yet found your role in shaping this new world or you’re not sure how we can actually get there, this book is for you.

With grace, humor, and humanity, Johnson invites readers to ask and answer this ultimate question together: What if we get it right?