July 9, 2025

How to fall in love with the future...

I've borrowed the name of Rob Hopkins's new book to create a blog post of inspiring links for you to absorb and act upon. There is a different future available but we need to build it together. I'm reposting this excellent list from Earthly Guy on Instagram and there are resources listed at the end.

1. Speak truth with love
Start with your circles. Friends, family, workmates. Share the full reality of what’s happening without sugarcoating it. This system is violent & unsustainable. The goal is to wake people up, not with fear, but with clarity & care.

2. Use your gifts for resistance
Whatever you do, you have power. Whether you make music, build things, teach, or organise behind the scenes, your skills matter. Use them to support movements, challenge the status quo, or build alternatives rooted in justice & ecology.

3. Confront power directly
Power will not give up willingly. Join movements that are resisting fossil fuels, corporate greed, & settler-colonial violence. Disrupt the smooth flow of business as usual. Show up where it hurts them most, & don’t ask for permission.

4. Divest from destruction
Move your money out of institutions funding war, fossil fuels, factory farms, & deforestation. Ethical banks & credit unions exist. Every dollar you remove is one less fuelling collapse. Starve the beast wherever you can.

5. Join or build a collective
Collective power is our only hope. Join a climate, housing, Indigenous, or justice group that aligns with your values. Or start one with others who are ready to fight. You don’t need to be perfect, just present & willing to grow.

6. Live like capitalism is ending
Radically reduce consumption. Eat plant-based. Grow and share food. Cut ties with fast fashion & hyper-consumerism. Build your life around regeneration, repair, care, & mutual support. Be a living contradiction to this system.

7. Disrupt the machine
This system will not be reformed. Mass boycotts, civil disobedience, blockades, strikes & sabotage have always been the tools of the oppressed. Nonviolent resistance is not just symbolic, it can shake the foundations of power.

8. Reclaim community & connection
The system wants us isolated and distracted. Fight that by building mutual aid, sharing skills, raising kids together, and restoring kinship with the more-than-human world.