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Pauline von Hellermann<p><a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/ClimateDiary" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClimateDiary</span></a> All those reading and contributing to ClimateDiary will know that questions of <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Hope" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Hope</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Optimism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Optimism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Despair" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Despair</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/DesperateDetermination" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DesperateDetermination</span></a> are central to what we are collectively trying to work through here. </p><p>This essay by Jag Bhalla, on &quot;The Dark Origins of Optimism and its Current Cheerful Evils&quot;, is one of the best pieces I&#39;ve ever read on this. Maybe the best (also many links). Enjoy. </p><p>&quot;As Voltaire knew, optimism is often an elite-serving demon in disguise&quot;</p><p><a href="https://sublationmedia.com/the-dark-origins-of-optimism-and-its-current-cheerful-evils/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sublationmedia.com/the-dark-or</span><span class="invisible">igins-of-optimism-and-its-current-cheerful-evils/</span></a></p>
Pauline von Hellermann<p><a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/ClimateDiary" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClimateDiary</span></a> Anyone else struggling to see any prospects for turning things around? I will keep on trying to do what I can. Of course. But 2024 is challenging.</p><p>Last year did a post about how I wasn’t motivated by hope but by <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/DesperateDetermination" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DesperateDetermination</span></a>. I now realise i got that wrong. Hope isn’t just fluffy “things will be alright”. Hope is some flicker of belief that you and others can change things; I did, actually, have “hope”. Less now, but will keep going. </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/13/banks-almost-7tn-fossil-fuel-firms-paris-deal-report" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/environment/ar</span><span class="invisible">ticle/2024/may/13/banks-almost-7tn-fossil-fuel-firms-paris-deal-report</span></a></p>
Pauline von Hellermann<p>10/n <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/ClimateDiary" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClimateDiary</span></a> I&#39;ve been feeling so despondent about the state of the world and the prospects for <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/COP28" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>COP28</span></a> that I found myself unable to continue this series, or in fact write much at all here. <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://climatejustice.rocks/@kathhayhoe" class="u-url mention">@<span>kathhayhoe</span></a></span>: a few months back we had an exchange about <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Hope" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Hope</span></a>, when I argued that I wasn&#39;t driven by hope as much as <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/DesperateDetermination" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DesperateDetermination</span></a>. But I now recognise just how debilitating true hopelessness is, and that it is indeed a problem. I don&#39;t think I&#39;ve ever had such a low. BUT:</p>
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