The famed British anthropologist Jane Goodall co-wrote a book about hope, and its crucial role in tackling health and climate crisis, and ultimately, in saving humanity.
“As we definitely are living through pretty dark times, I suddenly thought… it’s as though we’re in a great, big, dark tunnel and there’s all these obstacles and pitfalls and things which seem impossible to surmount or to cross,” says Jane Goodall. “But right at the end of that tunnel is a little pinprick of light. And that’s the hope that we are working to reach.”
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times, co-written with Douglas Abrams, is essentially a conversation between the two authors in which Jane Goodall’s “Reasons for Hope” – the human intellect, the indomitable human spirit, the power of young people, and the resilience of nature – are broken down. The book is meant to inspire young people to be more positive, and then to feed off this positivity to take climate action. It is Goodall’s belief that to put an end to the climate crisis, we must have hope, respect animals, and transform the energy and agricultural industries.
