Hope in Hell | Book by Jonathon Porritt | Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster UK
https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Hope-in-Hell/Jonathon-Porritt/9781471193279
Rupert Read je spolu s uživatelem Jem Bendell a dalšími (17).
I'm going to the virtual book launch of Porritt's new book, HOPE IN HELL, this evening... Jonathon Porritt has for years been seen as the patron saint of eco-optimism. When he writes a book that suggests that we are now -in- a kind of Hell, that we’ve allowed to be created albeit with the best of intentions, and that a more or less literal Hell — a world on fire, with societies collapsed — will be the fate of our children unless we change everything fast, then it’s clear that “Shit just got real”. As indeed it has.
And yet: there is hope. In fact, as Jonathon writes in the Introduction to this book, perhaps more hope than there has been for some time. For the surreal and terrible shock of the coronavirus crisis put the world temporarily on pause. This book offers some real hope for how we might reset, postcorona. As Jonathon puts it: the 2020s are the decisive decade, truly the last chance for humanity, and it turns out because of the virus that 2020/2021 will be the decisive year.
If there is indeed hope, then why say that are we already in a kind of Hell? Really, because it =is= Hell, for us to be well on the way to a slow-motion mass suicide that will most cruelly impact our descendants. For we humans (primates, mammals) aspire above all else to give them a better life.
It is fascinating to see how Porritt has become a full-scale climate-realist. He now states plainly the bitter truth, that “there is no hope whatsoever in another ten years of incremental change”. If we are to avoid civilisational nemesis, the only option now, he states with clarity, is “mass civil disobedience”. In which Porritt is prepared — as in integrity he must, given his diagnosis
— to take part; and that is what he promises, in this book. 'On behalf' of Extinction Rebellion, I
welcome him, and look forward perhaps to the day we’ll get arrested together.
There are many good reasons for reading Hope In Hell, but the most compelling reason of all for reading this book is to listen to one of the world’s most hopeful and best-informed environmentalists now telling the truth without varnish: that this — right now, this year — really is the last chance saloon for avoiding climate-driven societal collapse. When Jonathon Porritt says this, the world surely can’t avoid listening...