Book description
The challenges we face can be difficult even to think about. Climate change, war, political polarization, economic upheaval, and the dying back of nature together create a planetary emergency of overwhelming proportions. This revised, tenth anniversary edition of Active Hope shows us how to strengthen our capacity to face these…
Why read it?
2 authors picked Active Hope Revised as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Joanna sadly left this world in 2025, but her work will stay with me forever.
This was the book that helped me move past my panic attacks about the future of humanity. How should we be when we accept the fact that the world is falling apart? How does one act, prioritize, and engage? How do you do it, without falling apart yourself?
Not an easy book to read, because it clearly lays out the trouble we’re in as human beings on this planet—no tiptoeing around. And yet, that’s exactly what gave me comfort. I needed to recognize, name, and…
From Keri's list on people who sense that breakdown is the beginning, not the end.
I loved reading this book as it is both deeply personal and rooted in community.
It emphasises hope as an active practice rather than as a feeling; it’s something we do rather than we have, and it is rooted in desire for a different future. I liked that it doesn’t brush over the ecological destruction and the “pain for the world” as it is now. Instead, it honours this state to imagine a different future, which we can then work towards.
The book is very practical with lots of “try this” boxes to ensure this is not all theoretical, yet…
From Sigrun's list on climate hope and action.
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