In this essay, I move from the consideration of being human in the Anthropocene to the lived life of characters and activists who sacrifice and struggle on behalf of ecosystems that compose the biosphere. I look at three figures—the Nigerian writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, the Ojibwe writer and indigenous economist Winona LaDuke, and then characters from Richard Powers’ extraordinary novel, The Overstory—to think through the education of green abolitionists moving forward. The use of literary characters is crucial to this essay. What Powers’ novel permits is an interior view to the love and register of affect that animates the dedication of the green abolitionist. There is a line in The Overstory that captures the overarching spirit of my project. “Citizenship,” writes Powers, “comes with hunger for the uncut world.”