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Hope Matters: Why Changing the Way We think is Critical to Solving the Environmental Crisis (Greystone Books, Oct 2020) by Elin Kelsey.\n\nFears about climate change are fueling an epidemic of despair across the world: adults worry about their children\u2019s future; thirty-somethings question whether they should have kids or not; and many young people honestly believe they have no future at all.\xa0\n\nIn the face of extreme eco-anxiety, scholar and award-winning author Elin Kelsey argues that our hopelessness\u2014while an understandable reaction\u2014is hampering our ability to address the very real problems we face. Kelsey offers a powerful solution: hope itself.\n\nHope Matters boldly breaks through the narrative of doom and gloom to show why evidence-based hope, not fear, is our most powerful tool for change. Kelsey shares real-life examples of positive climate news that reveal the power of our mindsets to shape reality, the resilience of nature, and the transformative possibilities of individual and collective action.\xa0\xa0\n\n_________________________\n\nVan Carter is a retired broadcast journalist. "I was never a war correspondent, yet we're now in a war and I feel like I'm reporting from the front lines."\xa0 He published the green website theOnlyGreenlist from 2008-2023.\xa0 For more of the 12 episodes, search Suicide Earth at BlogTalk Radio.\n\nMusic credit: Chumbawamba, Tubthumper (I Get Knocked Down)\n\nKudos to Sunbury Press for hosting this interview series on its BookSpeak Network