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Hope is not passive: How activism keeps optimism alive
Scientist Donella Meadows on being proactive, yet positive:
"There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair."
"There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair."
En fait, l’espoir est un sujet très peu étudié par la science. C’est dommage, car les enseignements sont précieux. Par exemple, une étude réalisée en Suède (sur un millier d’adolescents et de jeunes adultes qui ont répondu à un questionnaire) a montré que l’espoir était corrélé à l’action uniquement chez les individus hautement préoccupés par les c
... See morePablo Servigne • Une autre fin du monde est possible (Anthropocène) (French Edition)
Was hope a factor for you? Did hope operate as a motivation for some part of your movement?
When we started, society was largely in a state of despair and apathy. And that is why we decided to use hope as one of our major forms of messaging. People were like, “How can you be hopeful? It looks like things are getting worse by the day.” But we didn’t ... See more
When we started, society was largely in a state of despair and apathy. And that is why we decided to use hope as one of our major forms of messaging. People were like, “How can you be hopeful? It looks like things are getting worse by the day.” But we didn’t ... See more
Overcoming despair and apathy to win democracy
We need stories about diverse communities addressing climate change on their own terms, finding resilience and even joy in the possible futures they envision for themselves and the world.
Introduction: Imagining Positive Climate Futures
Active hope, on the other hand, is a practice. It’s about “becoming active participants in bringing about what we’re hoping for.”3 And, crucially, since active hope “doesn’t require our optimism, we can apply it even in areas where we feel hopeless.” Which seems to be exactly the kind of hope we need these days.
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
as bad as climate doomism is, so is what she called “hopeium” — an unfounded optimism that someone else will come up with a magical climate solution akin to a silver bullet. “Underneath doomerism and hopeium is the question of ‘Are we going to win?’’” Ms. Heglar said. “That’s premature at this point. We need to ask ourselves if we’re going to try. ... See more