Searching for hope among the catastrophic conclusions

It is rather difficult to distil some good news from amid the somewhat catastrophic conclusions emerging from the equations of the world’s climatologists.

Those of us concerned about climate change – apparently that is a majority of people, but the reality is that only a minority are actually doing anything to counter what is happening – are alert to the fact of the importance of sustaining hope amongst a barrage of news that can unleash a sense of despair.

Ardent Beneath the Wisteria supporter, Terry Court, is an advocate of working to ensure that within the maelstrom of difficulties that is climate change we build an outcome that demonstrates hope.

Rather than focus on the brutalities of climate change, Terry, who acknowledges the challenges, prefers to look for the opportunities, those things that will build hope among people, strengthen their resolve and enable the creation of resilience.

Terry’s view is of course, correct and reflects a quote from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe who said “In all things it is better to hope than to despair” and as with all things despair achieves nothing, while within hope opportunity lives