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Hope is not passive: How activism keeps optimism alive
Andrew: If we’re too narrowly focused on preventing climate change, we’re identifying the wrong problem, and we’re going to come up with the wrong solutions. In fact, we’re missing the real site of struggle. Gopal: Climate catastrophe is going to happen. I have no doubts about that. But to then say, it’s too late, all is lost, is to stay stuck at 3
... See moreAndrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
To avoid doomism, Focus 20 percent on problems, and 80 percent on solutions. He’s come to understand that there’s a lifetime of work ahead, and concentrates on grassroots movements and affecting local change. “That work fulfills me,” he said, “and keeps me optimistic about a future in which we can still survive and thrive.”
New York Times • ‘OK, Doomer’ and the Climate Advocates Who Say It’s Not Too Late
It was striking that the people with the most at stake were often the most hopeful. And that those who were active were often hopeful, though it may be the other way around: some of those who are hopeful are active. Yet the range of the hopeful extends beyond that, and you can find hope in surprising corners.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
No! Of course fucking not! I’m still gonna do my stupid little part to try to dial back this absurd catastrophe we’ve inflicted on ourselves. And if all our efforts end in fucking failure, at least I’ll know that the little I did to slow things down will have been a fucking kindness to someone or to some creature. Okay, Mr. Future, are you fucking
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