Nearly every panel I spoke on this year ended with the same question: "What gives you hope?"
My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.)
The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope?
Because Greta is right ..
Although, without hope, there would be no action.
Thank you for inspiring us to practice hope!
For years, I’ve given dozens of talks & used PollEV to track audience questions.
About a decade ago, I noticed the same q being upvoted to the top of every list, whether speaking with gardeners or scientists:
“What gives you hope?” (or its flip, “Are we screwed?”)
I wrote this book to answer it!
A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World
She is a fine, brave and wise person.
In response to being called pessimistic I once told my boss I was actually an optimist with a very strong respect for risk.
Maybe we are on the Titanic. But I'd rather be trying to launch the lifeboats than partying on to the band.
I actually hae a bit of hope now and the reason is the burgeoning signs that the UK might finally throw out our bad rulers
"Despair is a luxury. Hope is a discipline". Quote is variously attributed to writers Robert MacFarlane and Mariame Kaba.
