We each have teenagers. What kind of world are we creating for them? What is their future in an age of climate change — are we handing them a world that is doomed?
So many of us are struggling with the future. So we decided to produce a three-part series all about hope where we ask thinkers, leaders and creators about where our capacity to hope comes from, how we can make it in our lives, and yes, whether we should hope for a future at all.
As we spoke to more people, we were constantly struck by the echoes and common threads throughout, and also surprised to hear some thoughts on hope that had never occurred to us.
That we are born innately with hope, though we tend to be more hopeful about things we can control in our private lives than public things like government and environmental issues. That hope is found where people are motivated to change what they see. That hope can be shallow — like for your pizza to arrive early — but we might want to look for a deeper hope than that. And that perhaps to find hope for tomorrow, we need to look in far off places. Like Mars.
Join us on this hope journey. Listen with us, and then tell us what you think. There’s a button a twww.ttbook.org/hope where you can record your thoughts which we might use in an upcoming show. Or email us at listen@ttbook.org.
As Alice Walker told us, “Hope Rises. She always does.” We think hope is rising too. Do you?
— Shannon and Charles