Author: Rob Hopkins.
Review written by Stephanie Munroe (Parents for Climate Supporter)
You’re a time traveller, eagerly stepping into the future. Climbing out of your spaceship, you look to a world where we as a civilisation did it - we turned around our march towards a doomed planet and, together, created a better world for our children and our environment. As you look out on the scene before you, what do you see? This is the pivotal question that Rob Hopkins encourages us to consider in his new book, How to fall in love with the future. In an age of climate doomism, horror stories of natural disasters, and gloomy forecasts devoid of hope, Rob challenges us to not only look towards a world where we, with our hard work and combined will, create a place where we can sigh a breath of relief, but step towards it with confidence. He presents scenarios gleaned from interviews with experts across wide and intersectional specialities on his podcast, presenting us with snippets of what could be - and why thinking this way is the first step towards putting actual boots on the ground. Better still, Rob talks us through how to conduct our own time traveller experiments in our communities - so we can bring our friends and family, our co-workers, or our local organisations along the journey with us.
Rating: 9.5/10. Half a star knocked off because I would have listened for hours to more hopeful suggestions put forth, but the selection was limited.
