Can we please stop using the word #hope when talking about the #ClimateCrisis?
Hope, especially when used by the media, plays into the hands of those, who claim that innovations, the free market and #capitalism will fix it for us and nobody really has to do anything - not us, not politicians and not the fossil capitalists.
Instead of headlines that read "Scientists say we can still have hope..." I want to read "Scientists say we have the means...".
Chance, possibility, option, alternative, even opportunity are better words to use.
Lets not give up, neither because we are hopeful, nor because we are hopeless. Let's act. It's in our hands!*
*That phrase might just be the best replacement for the word hope.