{"id":56614,"date":"2021-02-02T12:44:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T17:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56614"},"modified":"2021-02-02T12:44:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T17:44:40","slug":"against-climate-gloom-and-doom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56614","title":{"rendered":"Against Climate Gloom and Doom"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Against Climate Gloom and Doom<\/a><\/h3>\n

When given a chance, life finds a way. Here are some reasons to keep hoping \u2014 and fighting.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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Environmental scholar Elin Kelsey suggests that the conservation of coastal ecosystems hinges on hope.\u00a0Photo via Shutterstock.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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[Editor\u2019s note: As the environmental problems facing our world compound, despair may feel like a rational response. In her\u00a0new book<\/a>\u00a0Hope Matters: Why Changing the Way We Think Is Critical to Solving the Environmental Crisis, environmental scholar Elin Kelsey makes an evidence-based argument for choosing hope over despair. Kelsey holds up examples of how ecosystems \u2014 including along our coasts and in our ocean \u2014 have managed to rebound from damage when given the chance, illustrating nature\u2019s impressive resilience. By sharing these case studies, Kelsey offers reasons to reject apathy and to mobilize. Only if we believe there\u2019s an opportunity to make a real positive impact will we find the motivation to fight for the protection and restoration of ecosystems we depend on. In this condensed excerpt, Kelsey shares a few hope-filled success stories specific to coastal ecosystems.]<\/p>\n

We are living amid a planetary crisis. \u201cI am hopeless,\u201d a student in an environmental study graduate program recently told me. \u201cI\u2019ve seen the science. I am hopeless because the state of the planet is hopeless.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not surprising she feels so depressingly fatalistic. In his speech at the start of a two-week international conference in Madrid, Spain, in December 2019, UN secretary general Antonio Guterres said, \u201cThe point of no return is no longer over the horizon. It is in sight and hurtling toward us.\u201d<\/p>\n

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