There’s an incredible (bizarrely hopeful, if you can wade through all the depressing stuff) debate being waged in the U.K. press right now between George Monbiot and Paul Kingsnorth about whether we should simply wave our white flag and brace ourselves for civilization’s collapse (Kingsnorth and his Dark Mountain Project) or give saving the planet (or at least mitigating the damage) the ol’ college try (Monbiot).
Here’s an awesome quote by Monbiot:

Join up, protest, propose, create. It’s messy, endless and uncertain of success. Perhaps you see yourself as above this futility, but it’s all we’ve got and all we’ve ever had. And sometimes it works.

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