PaulaToThePeople<p>Can we please stop using the word <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/hope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hope</span></a> when talking about the <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a>? <br>Hope, especially when used by the media, plays into the hands of those, who claim that innovations, the free market and <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> will fix it for us and nobody really has to do anything - not us, not politicians and not the fossil capitalists.</p><p>Instead of headlines that read "Scientists say we can still have hope..." I want to read "Scientists say we have the means...".</p><p>Chance, possibility, option, alternative, even opportunity are better words to use.</p><p>Lets not give up, neither because we are hopeful, nor because we are hopeless. Let's act. It's in our hands!*</p><p>*That phrase might just be the best replacement for the word hope.</p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/optimism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>optimism</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/pessimism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pessimism</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/realism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>realism</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>activism</span></a></p>