{"id":5522,"date":"2020-01-10T17:23:12","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T22:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/?p=5522"},"modified":"2020-01-10T18:07:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T23:07:47","slug":"can-we-be-hopeful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/?p=5522","title":{"rendered":"Can we be hopeful?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>It\u2019s a two-part question: can we and should we?<\/h3>\n<p><a id=\"CvRktDgGQQtmKA3relty_A\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1157342510\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'CvRktDgGQQtmKA3relty_A',sig:'hY-THZPqsmOh5nwwvCpZ_Gm0q6oNvlDgSJXS_cnlyik=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1157342510',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src=\"\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\" async=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Being the self-anointed EcoOptimist, these days (can I say \u201cin the current environment\u201d or \u201cin the current climate\u201d without being tongue in cheek?) can sometimes be quite difficult when, with each passing day, we hear about another legislative rollback, another record high temperature or another iceberg calving off Antarctica. Indeed, it raises the question of whether being \u2013 or attempting to be \u2013 optimistic is a good approach. In one sense, the answer is no if it encourages reducing the pressure to act by saying that we can \u2018do this.\u2019 On the other hand, as I\u2019ve stated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/green-architecture\/defining-ecooptimism.html\">elsewhere<\/a>, becoming an \u2018Eco <em>Pessimist\u2019<\/em> can be akin to giving up. Since we\u2019re doomed, a pessimist might say, let\u2019s just enjoy things &#8211; drive, fly, be carnivores, live in McMansions \u2013 like there\u2019s no tomorrow. Because maybe there isn\u2019t a tomorrow?<\/p>\n<p>OK, that\u2019s taking the pessimism a bit too far, but you get the idea. The question is which is more effective: optimism or fear? The carrot or the stick?<\/p>\n<p>As with much else around us, this isn\u2019t a binary choice. We need both: fear of what can happen and the hope of solutions. One without the other is not likely to get us to the necessary results.<\/p>\n<p>Greta Thunberg, whose powerful fearlessness is perhaps the most positive thing that 2019 brought us, is great at combining the two, while also shaming us into action. Speaking to British MPs, <a href=\"https:\/\/amp.theguardian.com\/environment\/2019\/apr\/23\/greta-thunberg-full-speech-to-mps-you-did-not-act-in-time?__twitter_impression=true\">she said<\/a> \u201cThe climate crisis is both the easiest and the hardest issue we have ever faced. The easiest because we know what we must do. We must stop the emissions of greenhouse gases.\u201d I\u2019ll skip the hardest in favor of trying to be optimistic here. (And the linked article about the speech in the Guardian was headlined \u201c\u2019You did not act in time: Great Thunberg\u2019s full speech to MPs.\u201d So, I\u2019m being selective in my quotes.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drawdown.org\/\">Project Drawdown<\/a> also says we know what to do but gets specific about it. In Chad Frischmann\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/chad_frischmann_100_solutions_to_reverse_global_warming?language=en\">TED talk<\/a> he says \u201cwe have mapped, measured and detailed 100 solutions to reversing global warming. Eighty already exist today.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5523\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/?attachment_id=5523\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5523\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5523\" data-attachment-id=\"5523\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/?attachment_id=5523\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Project-Drawdown-top-10.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,244\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Project Drawdown top 10\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Project Drawdown&#8217;s top 10 solutions.  https:\/\/www.drawdown.org\/solutions &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Project-Drawdown-top-10-300x146.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Project-Drawdown-top-10.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5523\" src=\"http:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Project-Drawdown-top-10.jpg\" alt=\"Project Drawdown's top 10 solutions\" width=\"500\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Project-Drawdown-top-10.jpg 500w, https:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Project-Drawdown-top-10-300x146.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Project Drawdown&#8217;s top 10 solutions. https:\/\/www.drawdown.org\/solutions<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In the midst of an otherwise thoroughly depressing Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/science\/2019\/12\/31\/s-were-lost-decade-climate-we-cant-afford-repeat-scientists-warn\/\">article<\/a> titled \u201cThe 2010s were a lost decade for climate. We can\u2019t afford a repeat, scientists warn,\u201d a cherry-picked paragraph reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-size: 1rem;\">[Surabi Menon, vice president for global intelligence at the ClimateWorks Foundation and a steering committee member for the U.N.\u2019s emissions gap,] draws hope from progress that has been made on the ground in the past decade, even as global leaders fell short. Global renewable energy capacity has quadrupled since 2010, largely because of improved technology and falling costs, she noted. People increasingly see climate change as a threat; a Washington Post poll this year found that 76 percent of American adults view the issue as a &#8220;major problem&#8221;or a &#8220;crisis.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hope and fear.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/?attachment_id=5525\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5525\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5525\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/?attachment_id=5525\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/WaPo-climate-decade.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,343\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"WaPo climate decade\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/WaPo-climate-decade-300x206.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/WaPo-climate-decade.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5525\" src=\"http:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/WaPo-climate-decade.jpg\" alt=\"Washington Post lost decade headline screenshot\" width=\"500\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/WaPo-climate-decade.jpg 500w, https:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/WaPo-climate-decade-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the end of every year, we get inundated with all those year-end summary articles. You know, the ones that appear in every newspaper or TV channel and attempt to provide some insight into the events of the year but usually end up feeling like treacle-y filler: \u201cThe ten best [fill in the blank] of the year.\u201d I mostly ignore them because, well, treacle is way too sweet.<\/p>\n<p>Two of them, though, were about the positive (treacle-free) aspects of an otherwise dreadful year for environmental news. EcoWatch, one of my favorite blogs, posted \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/2019-climate-wins-2642492657.html\">20 Reasons Why 2019 Gave Us Climate Hope<\/a>\u201d and, while not exactly an end of the year review, the Huffington Post chimed in with \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/climate-crisis-scientists-hope_n_5de81ffae4b0913e6f8a5c69?guccounter=1\">We Spoke To 5 Climate Experts About What Gives Them Hope.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>EcoWatch\u2019s twenty reasons basically boil down to four: \u00a0increased public interest (reasons 1, 2, 3, 4 and part of 5), the pending slow demise of fossil fuel companies (#\u2019s 5 and 6), increased media coverage (#\u2019s 8 and 9), and celebrity and political candidate positions (#\u2019s 7 and 10). Nothing that new. Celebrities, for example, have been doing this for years, usually to no avail or, worse, causing a backlash. And the downturn of the fossil fuel industry has been predicted for as long as I can remember. But perhaps the twenty reasons are significant in their totality.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5530\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/?attachment_id=5530\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5530\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5530\" data-attachment-id=\"5530\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/?attachment_id=5530\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Jane-Fonda-Firedrill-Fridays.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,375\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Jane Fonda Firedrill Fridays\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Jane Fonda at one her Fire Drill Fridays protests in Washington, DC. Image from @janefonda Facebook page&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Jane-Fonda-Firedrill-Fridays-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Jane-Fonda-Firedrill-Fridays.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5530\" src=\"http:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Jane-Fonda-Firedrill-Fridays.jpg\" alt=\"Jane Fonda Fire Drill Fridays\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Jane-Fonda-Firedrill-Fridays.jpg 500w, https:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Jane-Fonda-Firedrill-Fridays-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5530\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jane Fonda at one her Fire Drill Fridays protests in Washington, DC. Image from @janefonda Facebook page<\/p><\/div>\n<p>While none of the Huffington Post interviewees got down to the specifics of Project Drawdown, they still \u2013 to state the obvious \u2013 give us hope. More or less.<\/p>\n<p>Gina McCarthy, the EPA Secretary under Obama back when the EPA actually protected the environment, said \u201cmy hopeful energy comes from young people.\u201d But that can be read as doing exactly what young activists are complaining about: kicking the can down the road. You can almost hear the \u201cOK boomer\u201d exasperated response.<\/p>\n<p>Marine biologist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson sounds much like Frischmann or Thunberg. \u201cI am certainly bolstered by the fact that we already have all the solutions we need.\u201d Her caveat: she predicates her hopes on having a new president.<\/p>\n<p>Weather and climate expert Marshall Shepherd sounds like a true EcoOptimist when he says \u201cwe are seeing a genuine ship-turning moment\u2026. Fortune 500 companies, faith-based communities and the military recognize the \u2018here and now\u2019 threat and are acting. There are genuine bipartisan efforts now in our Congress and within states.\u201d Forgive me if I ditch my optimism and find his faith in Congress to be unrealistic in even an EcoOptimistic mindset.<\/p>\n<p>Leah Stokes, an assistant professor at UC Santa Barbara, pins her hopes in multiple fronts: fossil fuel companies \u201cstarting to be held accountable,\u201d youth pressure, and presidential candidates trying to one up each other supporting the New Green Deal.\u00a0 But she ends on a less than optimistic note about people losing money and the disproportionate impact on the poor.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Mann, climatologist, geophysicist and co-creator of the famous &#8220;hockey stick graph&#8221; depicting rapid global warming, takes a measured tack, \u201cThe good news is that the impacts of climate change are no longer deniable. The bad news is that the impacts of climate change are no longer deniable.\u201d He, too, however, finds hope in the youth climate movement. It\u2019s hard, though, to accuse him of abdicating leadership and passing on the responsibility since he\u2019s been one of our most vocal environmental advocates.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5532\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/?attachment_id=5532\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5532\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5532\" data-attachment-id=\"5532\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/?attachment_id=5532\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Hockey-stick-graph.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,377\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Hockey stick graph\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Michael Mann&#8217;s &#8220;hockey stick graph.&#8221; Mann says we can be hopeful in spite of what the graph depict&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Hockey-stick-graph-300x226.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Hockey-stick-graph.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5532\" src=\"http:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Hockey-stick-graph.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Mann's &quot;hockey stick graph.&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Hockey-stick-graph.jpg 500w, https:\/\/ecooptimism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Hockey-stick-graph-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5532\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Mann&#8217;s &#8220;hockey stick graph.&#8221; Mann says we can be hopeful in spite of what the graph depicts.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Gizmodo Earther reporter Brian Kahn along with writer\/activist Mary Anna\u00efse Heglar tackle \u2018the hope question\u2019 head on. Hope, they say, is not sufficient and perhaps, given the state of climate inaction, we\u2019re beyond the point where hope is useful. <a href=\"https:\/\/earther.gizmodo.com\/in-2020-heres-how-you-can-help-address-the-climate-cri-1840731099\">Kahn writes<\/a> \u201cI get that hope is a thing we\u2019re all looking for amidst the worsening climate carnage, but I firmly believe hope isn\u2019t the most useful thing to steer us away from a worst-case scenario.\u201d EcoOptimism, however, is not ready to give up on hope as part of the path to solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Heglar, in what became a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaryHeglar\/status\/1210199765536985089\">lengthy Twitter thread<\/a>, says the question of hope is \u201cstale AF\u201d and writes \u201cmy wish for 2020 is for people to stop asking climate activists what gives us hope and start asking \u2018how can I help?\u2019\u201d This is closer to the EcoOptimist position of combining hope and fear, adding action into the mix.<\/p>\n<p>Kahn\u2019s concise version is: \u201cFuck hope. Long Live Action.\u201d As with EcoWatch, he reaches out to climate activists to ask, \u201chow can I help?\u201d Among his respondents, 350.org founder Bill McKibben replies he\u2019s concentrating on taking on the financial industry that bankrolls fossil fuels. Margaret Kleinman, founder of Climate Mobilization, directs us to \u201cBreak the silence: Start talking about the climate emergency and the need for WWII scale climate mobilization \u2014 in a realistic, blunt, emergency-focused way.\u201d Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, policy coordinator at the Climate Justice Alliance echoes Kahn, albeit in a slightly more family-friendly way: \u201cHope without action is like expecting a rock to float on water because you meditate.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I think there is a place for hope \u2013 and that it\u2019s actually necessary &#8211; so long as it\u2019s in tandem with both fear and action. The realistic EcoOptimist will say that we can really only hope that the seemingly hopeless events of 2019 will result in governmental change. Will the massive heat waves and fires in Australia cause voters to depose their anti-climate change prime minister? Will China\u2019s tepid attention to climate change expand? And the big one, will this country be able to vote out (I\u2019m not placing any hope in impeachment \u2013 I\u2019m not <em>that<\/em> optimistic) a president (there are too many derogatory adjectives I could have put in front of that word) who has single-handedly put us decades back in time?<\/p>\n<p>We can still be optimistic while holding our breath. Better yet, let\u2019s mix optimism with action. Anyone want to go to DC with me and get arrested with Jane Fonda? 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