I don’t think we need hope. I think we need imagination. We need to imagine a future which can’t be planned for and can’t be controlled. I find that people who talk about hope are often really talking about control.
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You asked me about hope for the future: The thought that the disaster we have created may help us see ourselves for what we are — animals — and not what we believe we are — gods — gives me a kind of hope.
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The end of the world as we know it is not the end of the world full stop.

- ‘I withdraw’: A talk with climate defeatist Paul Kingsnorth