The case for optimism
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We are not waiting for a new, cleaner world to be born. That world is already here, already among us, it’s just still … highly distributed.
That’s basically what I told the distraught congregant who cornered me at my mother’s church a few Sundays ago. A professional educator, she’s used to dealing with young people anguished about the climate crisis but had just run into her toughest situation yet — a boy just 10 years old in despair that animals, people, places are dying and no one is doing anything about it.
Casting around for something useful to say, towards the end of our conversation I blurted, “Chris Turner has a new book out — How to be a climate optimist: Blueprints for a Better World. That’s well worth reading.”