Mahurangi coastal path

Chapter 8

Audacious hope, and happiness

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author Cimino
work-in-progress published 20240909

Profligacy of a Climate Polycrisis Wasted: To waste a financial crisis was unfortunate, but it will be beyond-unfortunate for humanity and the natural world on which it is utterly dependent, should civilisation prove to be sufficiently careless to waste the Climate Polycrisis. cover Rosetta Books

…and something to hope for.
Norman Kirk, 1969

Audacity to hope burned all-too briefly. Barely elected, Barack Obama hopelessly let down his followers by surrounding himself with the suddenly-out-of-job, hand-picked neoliberal phalanx poised to run Hillary Clinton’s stillborn administration. To now be globally reignited, after two decades of bitter disappointment in the man and his aspiration of reclaiming the American Dream, is arguably a much greater ask.

Hope, however, as Norman Kirk astutely observed, is one of the four things—in addition to food, clothing and shelter—that people need. Kirk actually used the word want, which strangely better categorised the human need for hope. What constituents of a 21st century Kirk want, is still hope, but if it’s to survive more than mere months beyond any Yes-we-can election, and be Climate Polycrisis fit-for-purpose, that hope has to be a hell-of-lot more than wishful. Hope has to be based on sound science, and the knowledge that Climate Polycrisis­mobilisation, when it materialises, is stringently and surgically focused, and mega.

Happiness, in this context, may appear a luxury. But not only happiness, excitement  will be the by-product of Climate Polycrisis-mega­mobilisation, optimised. What has to be overcome is the legacy of the fetishising the economy, ahead of those things that result in healthy economies…

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