A Future We Can Love: How We Can Reverse the Climate Crisis with the Power of Our Hearts and Minds

The Dalai Lama and Greta Thunberg, in conversation with each other and with leading scientists, spiritual teachers, and climate activists, offer guidance to face the climate emergency and build a more equitable and humane world for all beings.

When the Dalai Lama and Greta Thunberg met and spoke for the first time, millions of people around the world took notice. The palpable sense of promise in their meeting drew its energy in part from the contrast of these two figures-one an embodiment of peace and patience, the other a rising symbol of the need for urgent action. Yet Greta and the Dalai Lama agree wholeheartedly that the climatic and ecological threats facing our planet require the attention and action of all human beings. It is encouraging to see how you have opened the eyes of the world to the urgency to protect our planet, our only home, the Dalai Lama wrote to Greta before their meeting.

A Future We Can Love brings these two great figures into dialogue with cutting-edge climate scientists and leaders to start a world-changing conversation. Readers embark on a four-part journey toward overcoming climate anxiety, from knowledge through capacity and will to action. The book will help you:

Use interdependence as a lens for understanding both the climate crisis and its solution

Clarify why feedback loops leave us no time to wait on climate action

Metabolize climate anxiety, grief, or burnout into useful energy

Develop your own ceremonies and practices for connecting to Earth and renewing hope

Overcome common obstacles to speaking and acting clearly on behalf of the human and wild communities most affected by the climate crisis