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Gute Essays über Hoffnung in Zeiten des Klimawandels
von Rebecca Solnit
"...eine US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin, Journalistin, Essayistin und Kulturhistorikerin." meint https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Solnit


Photo credit : © Adrian Mendoza, http://rebeccasolnit.net/biography/


‘HOPE IS A​N EMBRACE OF THE UNKNOWN​’: REBECCA SOLNIT ON LIVING IN DARK TIMES

We may be living through times of unprecedented change, but in uncertainty lies the power to influence the future. Now is not the time to despair, but to act.

despair, defeatism, cynicism and the amnesia and assumptions from which they often arise have not dispersed, even as the most wildly, unimaginably magnificent things came to pass. There is a lot of evidence for the defence.

“Critical thinking without hope is cynicism, but hope without critical thinking is naivety,” the Bulgarian writer Maria Popova recently remarked. And Patrisse Cullors, one of the founders of Black Lives Matter, early on described the movement’s mission as to “Provide hope and inspiration for collective action to build collective power to achieve collective transformation, rooted in grief and rage but pointed towards vision and dreams”. It is a statement that acknowledges that grief and hope can coexist.

July 15, 2016,
http://rebeccasolnit.net/essay/hope-...in-dark-times/


PROTEST AND PERSIST: WHY GIVING UP HOPE IS NOT AN OPTION
March 13, 2017

Optimism assumes all will go well without our effort; pessimism assumes it’s all irredeemable; both let us do nothing

Der Optimismus geht davon aus, dass ohne unsere Bemühungen alles gut gehen wird;
der Pessimismus geht davon aus, dass alles nicht zu retten ist;
beide lassen uns nichts unternehmen.

You do what you can. What you’ve done may do more than you can imagine for generations to come

Ideas are contagious, hope is contagious, courage is contagious. When we embody those qualities we convey them to others

http://rebeccasolnit.net/essay/prote...not-an-option/


DON’T DESPAIR
October 14, 2018

In response to Monday’s release of the IPCC report on the climate crisis – which warned that “unprecedented” changes were needed if global warming increases 1.5C beyond the pre-industrial period – a standup comic I know posted this plaintive request on her Facebook: “Damn this latest report about climate change is just terrifying. People that know a lot about this stuff, is there anything to be potentially optimistic about? I think this week I feel even worse than Nov 2016 and I’m really trying to find some hope here.”

http://rebeccasolnit.net/essay/dont-despair/

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Rebecca Solnit on Climate Change and How Political Activism Can Help Us Find Happiness

The longtime writer and activist discusses the hope found in uncertainty, her experience at the Paris climate talks, the role of the writer and more.

How do you keep hope amid climate change?

It’s tough because we know terrible things are happening and are going to happen. Hope is that we can steer toward the best-case scenarios instead of the worst. Hope is not like saying, “Let’s pretend I don’t have cancer.” It’s saying, “Let’s hope this treatment has survivability. Let’s work for the best-case scenarios.”

MARCH 11, 2016, http://inthesetimes.com/article/1893...s-things-to-us
BY DAYTON MARTINDALE, http://inthesetimes.com/article/1893...s-things-to-us
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