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“Hope Dies Last” – Visionary People Across the World
April 29 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Having reached a point of no return in our climate confrontation, how do we feel, behave, act, plan, and dream as we approach a future different from what we had expected? Where do we find hope?
Environmental journalist Alan Weisman is known for the bestseller The World Without Us, a thought experiment that brought into sharp relief the impact that we are having on the natural world. He returns with Hope Dies Last: Visionary People Across the World, Fighting to Find Us a Future, a book ten years in the making: a study of what it means to be a human on the front lines of our planet’s existential crisis.
Profoundly human and moving, this rejoinder to climate anxiety asks: Having reached a point of no return in our climate confrontation, how do we feel, behave, act, plan, and dream as we approach a future decidedly different from what we had expected? It shows how people with bold concepts can envision and create a new relationship with the Earth. A literary evocation of our current predicament, Hope Dies Last is an uplifting portrait of the core resolve of our species, profiling those courageously responding to the most precarious odds we have ever faced. He is joined in conversation by author Amy Wilentz.