What gives me hope?
sunrise.
In part, it is us coming together as others are across the earth, circles of in the spirit of facing the magnitude of the problems and doing something. How and when we get up & move is a story within the larger story -that oneness one -that just unfolds. It's the root of love too. Mountains will stand, erupt, respond as they may, water will flow over tears of anger, and the sun will shine despite our collective human condition.
Death is a part of life & life a part of death. My last living grandparents both passed on to the spirit world last spring & summer & with their leaving, came the teaching of humility & living today. Gratitude and the sacredness of the web we are a part of speaks hope. Allowing myself to grieve too carries me to a place of being able to keep going. Because an irreversible shift has already spun and we are spinning on how to respond. Trauma passed down in lineage, across generation, injustices insist on being resolved.

If anyone is interested, The Eco-Pragmatist Manifesto by Stuart Brand, an apparent friend/collegue of Dr. LoveJoy mentioned in Human Race Will Be Extinct, refutes the fears of overpopulation with his findings. I have mixed feelings about his other arguments in the book, but it was informative...