Standing Rock did not stop the pipeline, but it really impacted a generation. And so indirect consequences are something I find really exciting. And of course, you all know her now as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the person who introduced the Green New Deal.
And as it happens, she decided to run for Congress. And one of them was so influenced by what she experienced there - the commitment, the hope - that she went home and changed her life and changed from really feeling despairing and powerless to feeling she could do something. And so in the middle of that incredible gathering of thousands of people at Standing Rock, a station wagon set out from New York City with a bunch of young friends in it. For so many non-Native people, it was a crash course in understanding both climate change and oil pipeline politics, and Indigenous rights in history. Standing Rock became this huge gathering of Native and non-Native people. Solnit: Oh, I feel like this is one of the great lesser-known stories of the last 15 years or more.
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Tell me about this station wagon full of folks from New York who arrived at that protest. And there’s a great story about the young people who showed up at Standing Rock in 2016 to protest a pipeline. Scott: One thing you talk about is that hope takes a long time to become success or victory. Hope, for me, is facing the uncertainty of the future, the fact that it’s being created by what we do or fail to do in the present and really engaging actively with what those possibilities are. Solnit: For me, optimism is really confidence that everything will be fine, and if everything is going to be fine, nothing is required of us.
And I’m wondering why that distinction is important and why is hope different. Scott: As you say at the outset of the book, hope is not the same thing as optimism. And so this book is really a toolbox to equip people with the ideas, the hope, the confidence, the context, to, you know, go forth and do something. Rebecca Solnit: We do see it as for everyone, and we’ve had people say for experts who are burned out and exhausted that the book can be a kind of refresh or a reminder of, you know, what’s possible, why we care, what we’ve done so far. An edited transcript of their conversation follows.Īmy Scott: You and your co-editor, Thelma Young Lutunatabua, have a very specific audience in mind for this book.
Rebecca Solnit is co-editor and one of the authors of “ Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility.” The well-known author joined Marketplace’s Amy Scott to talk about the power of hope and why we shouldn’t view climate change as a battle that we’ve already lost. It’s scary stuff, and it can make you feel a bit hopeless.īut a new book proposes that we reframe the conversation around climate change to one of possibility rather than despair. And research shows that approximately 150 million people are living on land that will be below the high-tide line by 2050. has suffered a billion-dollar natural disaster every 18 days on average 40 years ago, one occurred every 82 days. Current climate projections predict a 2.7-degree Celsius increase in global temperature by the end of the century, which is well above the 1.5-degree cap agreed to at the Paris climate accord of 2015.
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