"The ability to imagine what it's like to be inside another person's mind or another person's life is the beginning of compassion...and it seems to me too that moral imagination is a necessary condition for hope. When you set out to think of something new, then you have a reason to think it might be possible. If you can't imagine anything better then you'll never be able to act towards achieving it. I believe you can imagine a better future into existence."

Professor Emerita of Environmental Philosophy at the Oregon State University, Kathleen Dean Moore was the co-editor of Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril, and the award-winning author of many other books, including Riverwalking, Great Tide Rising, and the illustrated Take Heart: Encouragement for Earth’s Weary Lovers. She retired early from academia to focus on the climate crisis, and she’s a senior fellow at the Spring Creek Project. She’s one of the fiercest and wisest people I know.

What can YOU do about Climate Change?  https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2022/10/what-can-you-do-about-climate-change-take-this-quiz-to-find-out/

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