Here’s one of the best and certainly most hashtag#hopeful passages from Rutger Bregman’s book “Human Kind”, more timely and more needed now than ever:
“I’m no sceptic when it comes to hashtag#climatechange. There’s no doubt in my mind that this is the greatest challenge of our time – and that time is running out. What I am skeptical about, however, is the fatalistic rhetoric of collapse. Of the notion that we humans are inherently selfish, or worse, a plague upon the earth. I’m skeptical when this notion is peddled as ‘realistic’, and I’m skeptical when we’re told there’s no way out.
Too many hashtag#environmental hashtag#activists underestimate the resilience of humankind. My fear is that their cynicism can become a self-fulfilling prophecy – a nocebo that paralyses us with despair, while temperatures climb unabated. The hashtag#climate movement, too, could use a new realism.
‘There’s a failure to recognise that not only problems but also solutions can grow exponentially,’ Professor Boersema told me. ‘There’s no guarantee they will. But they can.’”