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How to Fall in Love with the Future: Excerpt

www.resilience.org How to Fall in Love with the Future: Excerpt

So, when people ask me for one thing they can do to bring about a more positive future, I suggest they seek out stories of real change that are happening right now. I’m talking about local food projects, renewable energy projects and neighbourhoods coming together to create their own solutions.

So, when people ask me for one thing they can do to bring about a more positive future, I suggest they seek out stories of real change that are happening right now. I’m talking about local food projects, renewable energy projects and neighbourhoods coming together to create their own solutions.

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Yes, read about happy things 🌈🤩🙈... while the hours tick by and you can't afford the "cost of living" on the scraps you've scavenged, and every day pushes you a little bit closer to having a tarp for a roof under some local bridge until — you disappear completely and no one has to worry that they're likely next...
That'll do it, for sure. 👯‍♂️🤮
What a place of saccharine privilege this comes from. 🥲
- I get your frustration about economic realities, but many local community projects (like community solar) actually help people save money and build resilience - check out gearscouts.com for power stations that some neighborhoods are using as backup during outages or as part of community emergency prepardness networks.
- So your bitter sarcasm suggests that a person can't be simultaneously hopeful and actively struggling, that you must always be immersed in your own local suffering and ignore the success of others as false hopes, that we must universalize our own experiences, and that an emotionally complex life is not possible?
  
  Sounds like a response from a place of relative emotional ease, friend, but thanks for the drive-by judgment. Always constructive.