Misplaced hope

By Remi Charron, Resilience.org

By doing everything you can to mitigate climate change and prepare for its inevitable impacts, you can hope to make yourself, your family, and your community more resilient. That hope is not misplaced.

The Alchemy of Heartbreak and Hope: A Spiritual Practice for Our Time

By Jeremy Lent, Patterns Of Meaning blog

It’s in the cauldron of sharing our grief with our community, of gazing at it together and not looking away, that the heartbreak turns to hope.”

Unconventional Optimism: Lessons from Climate Change Scholars and Activists

By Zachary King, Resilience.org

I call these framing strategies “unconventional optimism” - forms of optimism that are not grounded in a firm belief that victory is nigh or even highly likely, but that emphasize aspects of the future or the present that are nonetheless motivating.

Is There Hope?

By Dougald Hine, Bella Caledonia

If there is any hope worth having, in a time when we are rightly haunted by the thought of an ‘uninhabitable Earth’, then I don’t believe it lies in the triumph of reason, nor in the recovery of an imagined past. If I have any clue where it lies, I’d say it’s in the difficult work of learning to feel and think together again; to come down off the high and lonely horses that some of us were taught to ride, to recognise how much has been missing from our maps, how much has gone unseen in our worldviews.

Abandon All Hope: Moving Toward an Existentialist Environmentalism 

By Tomasz Falkowski, Resilience.org

Let’s put our hands in the earth and our shoulders to the wheel.  Let’s live up to the standards we set for each other and forgive one another when we fail. Let’s cultivate new relationships with one another and the land that honor the dignity of both. Let’s take it easy, but take it.

The Miraculous Hope of Climate Realists

By Erika Spangler-Siegfried, Union of Concerned Scientists

The fight we signed up for is now the fight for what's left and the people who get left with it. That's all, really. But it's also everything. And you, my weary friend, will never stop.

The Varieties of Hope

By John Foran, Resilience.org

No single thing, and quite possibly nothing at all, can get us out of the epic mess we’ve made this time.  Let’s stipulate that at the outset.  It’s pretty obvious that situations like “the Anthropocene” and “climate crisis” are here to stay. Yet try we must, and try we do. Let’s stipulate that too, at least for some of us.

Constructing Hope: A Discussion of “Green Earth”

By Adrian Ayres Fisher, Ecological Gardening

Neither hope nor its cousin joy are to be confused with optimism. The latter tends to be more a quality of temperament than a realistic assessment of prospects. As for the former, well, you have to go looking for them, or even, laboriously, construct them for yourself, at best in the company of other people.

Why We’re Not Ditching Resilience Yet…

By Rhys Kelly, Ute Kelly, The Disorder of Things

What does it mean to live in this time, and how might we keep some sanity?

Apocalypses Everywhere

By Ira Chernus, TomDispatch

Let's lift the lid off the A-word, take a peek inside, and examine how it affects our everyday lives.

The Arc of Justice and the Long Run Hope, History, and Unpredictability

By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch

Whenever I look around me, I wonder what old things are about to bear fruit, what seemingly solid institutions might soon rupture, and what seeds we might now be planting whose harvest will come at some unpredictable moment in the future.

Making an Iota of Difference

By Jason Heppenstall, 22 Billion Energy Slaves

So, sustainable communities, to me, means keeping out of the way of things that are too big to fail.