One question that keeps coming up, no matter what space or context I am in, is: “are you an optimist or a pessimist?” Well the answer really is … neither! And it’s this binary, and their perceived lack of interplay when it comes to discussing solutions to the climate crisis, that I hope to challenge in this article. Whilst optimism takes the approach of “it will definitely work out/change will magically appear”, pessimism is based on the idea that the fight is already lost, so “why bother”.
