Why We Need Climate Hope

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1. Hey all! What's been given you hope in these dark times?
   Also, here's a video made about Solarpunk if you want to get inspired: https://youtu.be/u3aauiR9M88

2. This video brought tears to my eyes

3. Great video, and a friendly reminder to everyone that the best individual action you can do to help the climate crisis is to go vegan or at least as much plant-based as your own circumstances and resources allow you. Animal farming and fishing are one of the greatest polluters and causes of global warming emissions and the decimation of rainforests and the oceans. Please, consider it for the animals, for the climate and for the people. First week migth be hard, but if you do your research you will find it's not as complicated, it's affordable and it can be delicious.

4. Radical hope sounds like radical denial, at this point, it requires magical thinking to not accept our future. What we do need is to prepare ourselves, physically mentally, and socially.

5. I do not know that radical hope is realistic. I am not suicidal, and I will try to alleviate it as much as I can. I will stay alive as long as I can, and I will help build a better society as the ongoing major damage increases. Still, I harbor little hope for general society. The psychopaths and their propaganda machines have such great power, including financial. These are myopic greedy psychopaths that stand in our way. How can we reach them?

6. Climate change is not a binary condition. It is one of degree.

   But talking about climate change without bringing up planned obsolescence is nonsense. The nitwit economists don't report the depreciation of durable consumer goods in this age of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence. What is NDP?

   Our miseducational system could have made accounting/finance mandatory in the schools since Sputnik. But socialists don't want people thinking for themselves any more than capitalists.

7. It's really hard to stay positive with every new crisis, but we have to… Thanks for the video, as always.

8. love it

9. I’m in Tears.

10. I couldn’t agree less. Hope is what’s been tried, it brings false positivity and gives permission to carry on. What’s needed is radical honesty. Because of hope, the vast majority of people don’t realize the severity of the challenge. It’s given the deniers the new trope that alarmism is unjustified, that the problem isn’t so severe, just expensive. Being honest is being realistic. Two profound truths need to be internalized and communicated. 1. There is no possibility of preserving the world as it is, the arrangements and lifestyles we thought were timeless. 2. Our chief impediment is other people who will die before they admit being wrong. Accepted and communicated publicly, this ends the stasis and permits action. First, it delegitimates the status-quo. Economic life as it exists is the problem, and halting participation is ethical and actionable. Second, it requires planning for survival, taking stock of what to save, and admitting what is possible. Third, it suggests actions in smaller groups, instead of waiting for a global societal transformation. Hope might inspire, but fear is the motivator. And in this instance, fear is the most honest way to approach what is a terrifying reality.

11. Water protectors are worth looking into/helping

12. doomerism is such a hard one. like every time i get motivated to join and start putting effort or money behind things, i often start to feel drained and a feeling that im just dumping effort into a void, wasting my time, putting myself through stress for nothing, so I give up. Its more then just being a climate activist or a doomer, its both for me where doomerism all to often stops me from acting in any significant way. We will see if i can fallow through this time.

13. We did manage to close the hole in the ozone layer. Not the same thing, I know but it's something to consider. We do see other nations making good steps in terms of energy use. There is some, albeit not enough, good news.

14. Fantastic and timely video! Loved all the quotes 🙂

15. let's be hopefull only for a moment, and the second after… on and on till we achieve what we want! greetings from Brazil, we're struggling right now but every action is worth it!!

16. It is about adapting to a warming planet and reducing your carbon and or toxic emissions footprints which can be usually done by purchasing locally manufactured goods, use sustainable public transport/transit whether its local, regional or long distance, walk, cycle, buy clothes that can be used for multi purposes and don't date fashion wise, don't buy online, live energy efficiently, recycle, vote of local, state and central/federal politicians who campaign on green policies, etc. The west addiction to capitalist/neoliberal economics and governance needs to change, as this global health pandemic has shown it can't cope with prolong disruptions and differently will not cope with ongoing global uncertainties and a warming planet.

17. As a person with Climate Anxiety, one of the things that help me cope, accept, and spread hope for the future has been taoism. The understanding that we are part of nature and the universe and that everything had to happen the way it has to get us to where we are today. Also, as a prehistoric geek, look at the earths history. There were times where over 90% of ALL LIFE was wiped from the earth, or when the earth was so toxic bearly anything could survive, but look where we are now. All this life, billions and billions of living souls. If every livong thing on this planet disappered, the earth would still turn. If the earth disappered, the solar system will still go on, and the galaxy will continued as if nothing ever happened.

    When i feel so small and hopeless and all the problems are huge and monsterous, it helps to reshape your view and find your grounding. At the end of the day, the best you can do if be a voice for a better tomorrow and be a part of the chain of positive change.

18. I think that this video came at a really good time for me.
    I've been making steady progress on my artistic hobbies but I still feel somewhat bad or less for wanting to embrace the title of artist. I know I don't have to be perfect or huge to be one.

    This is relevant because it also relates to my eco-anxiety and moments of hopelessness towards fighting climate change, as well as being afraid of radical change, let alone having the "audacity" or courage to help spearhead it.

    I will decide to be more hopeful, and thanks very much for making me feel less lonely. 🙂 (I've noticed that the news and pop culture tends to isolate people that go against the status quo, or paint them in a bad light that puts them on pedestal where they're bombarded with double standards, misconceptions and so on. Just my opinion.)

19. You fools have been banging on about this for over 50 years , on a 10 year cycle – no dire predictions have come to pass . It doesn't stop you continuing, because you're now preaching to a lot of wimps who don't know the failed predictions of the past …!!

20. Even with the war right Now. This was very hopefull

21. As a climate behaviourist and educator, I truly believe the balance of both doom and hope is crucial in improving awareness and changing lifestyle. People need to comprehend that the issue is urgent and serious. At the same time, people should also know that we can get through this event with a particular group of actions. Let's more actively educate people in our circles!

22. What a brilliant message! Thanks for that Charlie

23. We do need to accept a better future and foster a belief in humanity. We need to trust that we have the means to create change. That by taking action, we make a difference. We need to proactively shape and leave a better world to our children.

    Compassion is the cure to apathy. We need to give power to the will to care.

24. Amazing vid, as always!

25. How do you make your thumbnails?

26. Thank you for this

27. Thank you so much for this! I really needed it! I have been experienced bouts of doomerism for a while now. I was upset that nothing was really being done to stop climate change and was saying that we should just accept our fate. But now your video has given me hope. You're right, things can and do change suddenly. And yes, there are hopeful signs out there that more and more people are waking up regarding the climate crisis. So I feel more optimistic now.

28. You have the wrong hope: you should hope for a much better future then we're on a path too.

    Global warming ("climate change" is a term invented to distract from ecological destruction) has already happened. It can be reversed in a century or two, with extreme and dedicated action, but it has happened.

    The attitude should be we can make the world better, and the best world can be created by dismantling systems that caused the damage in the first place. But for at least a century, we do have to compensate for the negative fall out from the changes to the world.

29. 5:34 I'm not sure THAT story is all that hopeful considering what comes next.
    I would really hate to get rid of neoliberalism just to find myself ruled by Emperor General Secretary Ron DeSantis.
    Or whatever Putinesque figue rules over my grandchildren (which idk I guess it's still better than the Czar).

30. Great video, but I hope you understand the benefits of ethical locally produced Vegan products in this fight is too big to be ignored and made fun of. I suggest you please show the damage caused by personal lifestyle products, luxury, consumerism, unethical food practices on your channel so all these illiterate morons and bigcorps who call themselves educated and too sophisticated to go ethical will get some good education.

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