“I don’t think we need hope. I think we need imagination. We need to imagine a future which can’t be…”
“I don’t think we need hope. I think we need imagination. We need to imagine a future which can’t be planned for and can’t be controlled. I find that people who talk about hope are often really talking about control. They hope desperately that they can keep control of the way things are panning out. Keep the lights on, keep the emails flowing, keep the nice bits of civilisation and lose the nasty ones; keep control of their narrative, the world they understand. Giving up hope, to me, means giving up the illusion of control and accepting that the future is going to be improvised, messy, difficult.”
– Paul Kingsnorth in conversation with Wen Stephenson at Grist. ‘I withdraw’: A talk with climate defeatist Paul Kingsnorth
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