Meg began by acknowledging the central place of hope in our lives and culture. “The idea that history moves forward, the idea of progress, is one of the building blocks of Western civilization. Part of the bedrock we stand on. But we made it all up. We think our technology will save us, but it actually traps us. Our activism is fueled by similar no

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Not on preventing catastrophe, but simply surviving it; on keeping a tenuous thread of civilization going across the next many generations; on some of us getting through the horror and wreckage of it, to some other mode of living profoundly different from anything we know. This is the “hope beyond hope” that British writer and ecologist Paul Kingsn

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