Why climate despair is a luxury
Those facing flood and fire can’t afford to lose hope. Neither should we.
By Rebecca Solnit
Solnit shows that hope is not naiveté, that important change can come from situations that seemed hopeless, that the prophets of doom are taking the easy and lazy way out, and that “we must come to terms with [uncertainty], because it is the essential nature of the future.”
https://www.newstatesman.com/environment/2022/10/rebecca-solnit-climate-despair-luxury