Fast facts

The Power of Hope

Greater Good Magazine explored “Seven Ways to Feel Hopeful About Climate Change.” The following includes a few key takeaways of the article.

• One individual can create collective hope.
  • Learn the story of how a single experience fueled the rise of a movement.
    
    
• Small actions add up.
  • Learn how small actions—such as cutting out driving one day per week—can create significant results.
• The data on climate change provides hope.
  • “Positive numbers don’t erase the urgency of climate change, but they do help us to understand that progress isn’t just possible—it’s happening.”
• As a climate activist, surround yourself with a community that believes in sustainability.
  • “The solution is community, being a part of a community, finding a community, supporting community, recognizing community.”
• Walk in nature and write about it.
  • An award-winning poet “shared how a writing practice helped him shift from anxiety to hope, by helping him slow down, think of action, and cultivate gratitude for what was working.”
• Ecological belonging fuels hope.
  • “It’s a way of responsibility and reverence of life. How we move forward depends on how much we connect so that we can work on this together. So it’s true that all these challenges are innumerable, but at the same time, the opportunities are infinite.”
• View uncertainty as possibility.
  • “While we can’t know what the future will bring, we do know that just as collective human action created climate change, so we can collectively act to minimize its impact.”