Hope vs. Climate Chaos

“I'm looking back at that happy man, myself, as he stands there-soaked in summer moonlight on that Thursday night in August.

He's happy because the scene is beautiful; and because he's in love; and because his novel is finished—he only just did the very last thing, correcting the galleys-and its first readers are excited by it. His life feels good.

“Power is the currency of change, and policy is merely frozen power.” - David Rolf

"The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts”

- Marcus Aurelius

"Festina lente - Make haste, slowly"- Greek and Latin proverb, adopted by Augustus and commonly attributed to him.

“… we can no longer afford to carry on in a prolonged era of polite reflection and ineffective resistance. An Era of Emergencies is bearing down on us." - Barry Lopez from embrace fearlessly the burning world

“Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, ages: it is the rule." - Friedrich Nietzsche

“The human epistemologies, the six thousand spoken ways of knowing God, are like the six thousand ways a river can run down from high country to low, like the six thousand ways dawn might break over the Atacama, the Tanami, the Gobi, or the Sonoran … Each place is itself only, and nowhere repeated. Miss it and it's gone.” - Barry Lopez, from Embrac

“As climactic change begins to affect long-range strategic planning for human survival, as the Earth's stocks of pelagic food fish plummet, as dry-land aquifers are drained, we can easily believe we've been shortsighted in a loss of intimacy with place, in largely ignoring the impact geography has on our daily lives.” Barry Lopez from embrace fearl

“Over and over again, the world has been changed by people who, at the outset, seemed far too puny to pit themselves against the most powerful institutions of their time” - Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit, Thelma Young Lutunatabua

“Hope is an ax you break down doors with in an emergency." - Rebecca Solnit