My self-appointed mission: to think and feel my way into our darkening future, trace out the pathways before us, game out our options, and along the way — amidst my own splutterings of hope and despair — take good notes and draw a few maps that might be useful to all of us.

What can we do now? Well, there's a

whole lot of things really. We can begin the work of limiting the damage we do to nature and that's, of course, the obvious one and is underway in many very good organisations and human beings in the world today. But I think we also need to reestablish some sense of who we are and what we're doing here. And I thin

in focusing only on the material basis of harm—environmental hazards, brutal police officers, and discriminatory employment algorithms, to name a few—we may overlook the ideas and ideologies that continue to give rise to those harms again and again. If, as Kelley laments, “There are very few contemporary political spaces where the energies of love

Feel it all like a weight, soaked with the blood of centuries. Let it make you feel uncomfortable. Or (3) From a place of love, learn how to listen. Step back to make room for the voices of those who can’t afford to be hopeless, and also step forward into your best, most hopeful self. Or (4) All of the above.