I don’t know if you read Dave Roberts over at Gristmill, but you really should if you care much about climate politics. You should read Kate Sheppard over there, too.
Anyway, when people ask me how I don’t get engulfed in despair about the human race, I tell them I pay attention to what’s going on around me on the street. I see people laughing, people helping old ladies, mom’s loving their kids, doormen joking together.
Sure, humanity has it foibles–and I admit that those foibles could cause a lot of suffering for us if we aren’t careful–but for the most part, I think we’re pretty neat. Remembering that, I keep the despair at bay.
Dave Roberts posted this video over at Grist. I may be putting words in his mouth, but I think it may have been, for him, one day’s reason not to get engulfed by despair.