Tag: Vision of the future

Struggling with eco-anxiety or despair? Try hope, stubborn optimism & action

Despair and defeatism are traps.  In a riveting article, historian Rebecca Solnit explains that despair, defeatism and cynicism are traps. Eco-anxiety and despair lure us into inaction and neutralize our power by draining us of energy and making action seem futile.  Allowing ourselves to marinate in anxiety and despair not only makes us miserable but…