A Future We Can Love How We Can Reverse the Climate Crisis with the Power of Our Hearts and Minds

by Bauer-Wu, Susan

• ISBN13: 9781645471400
• ISBN10: 1645471403
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-06-13
• Publisher: Shambhala

Summary

Wisdom and guidance to face the climate emergency from the most influential spiritual and environmental leaders of our time.

When the Dalai Lama and Greta Thunberg spoke for the first time in January 2021, millions of people around the world took notice. “It is encouraging to see how you have opened the eyes of the world to the urgency to protect our planet, our only home,” the Dalai Lama wrote to Greta before their meeting.

A Future We Can Love shares the words of these two great figures, generations apart, bringing them into dialogue with cutting-edge climate scientists, activists, and spiritual leaders to start a world-changing conversation. Readers embark on a four-part journey toward active hope in the face of the climate crisis: from knowledge of climate science through the capacity for change, to the will that is needed and the actions we can take. The book will help you:

• use interdependence as a lens for understanding both the climate crisis and its solutions
• clarify why feedback loops leave us no time to wait on climate action
• metabolize climate anxiety, grief, or burnout into useful energy
• develop your own rituals and practices for connecting to Earth and renewing hope
• overcome common obstacles to speaking and acting clearly on behalf of the human and wild communities most affected by the climate crisis

Author Biography

HIS HOLINESS THE FOURTEENTH DALAI LAMA is considered the foremost Buddhist leader of our time. The exiled spiritual head of the Tibetan people, he is a Nobel Peace Laureate and a remarkable teacher and scholar who has authored over 100 books. GRETA THUNBERG, born in Stockholm in 2003, began weekly strikes for the climate in 2018 outside the Swedish Parliament. Her actions helped inaugurate a new phase in the global climate movement, galvanizing millions of people around the world, and especially the young. SUSAN BAUER-WU, PhD, is the President of the Mind & Life Institute, an organization founded by the Dalai Lama in 1987 to bring science and contemplative wisdom together and is the author of Leaves Falling Gently.