"We Need Courage, Not Hope, to Face Climate Change"
Kate Marvel
"What's the Big Deal With a Few Degrees?"
Global Weirding with
Katharine Hayhoe
"I Live in the Midwest & Northern Great Plains - Does Climate Change Matter to Me?"
Global Weirding with
Katharine Hayhoe
"After a wet two years, 400 Iowa farmers offer to take 41,000 acres out of crop production"
Erin Murphy,
The Quad City Times
"'Overwhelming and Terrifying': The Rise of Climate Anxiety"
Matthew Taylor &
Jessica Murray
"The Concession to Climate Change I Will Not Make"
Jedediah Britton-Purdy
Avoiding the Pitfalls of Both
Cruel Hope & Cruel Despair
These links explore the emotions that growing awareness of climate devastation can cause. We all feel more and less optimistic on different days, but it's crucial to avoid living in a constant state of either naive optimism ("oh, everything will be fine") or cynical fatalism ("we are so screwed"). The irony is that people who permanently adopt both perspectives will do the same thing about our climate crisis: nothing.