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Hope is not passive: How activism keeps optimism alive
whereas the activism I’d been raised on was fuelled by hope, what struck me most about these young people was their profound pessimism. They wanted humanity to avert disaster, but, despite politicians announcing Green Deals of many kinds, they had little hope that their societies could become much better.
from Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination by Geoff Mulgan
- Often, hope works best alongside tools for proactively tackling future challenges. If our work becomes a catalysing force for people to imagine things they would not have been able to imagine otherwise and act upon that imagination, then that’s powerful, and for me, this is a slow form of critical activism.
from Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics by Medium
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- part of a growing cadre of people, many of them young, who are fighting climate doomism, the notion that it’s too late to turn things around. They believe that focusing solely on terrible climate news can sow dread and paralysis, foster inaction, and become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
from ‘OK, Doomer’ and the Climate Advocates Who Say It’s Not Too Late by New York Times
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