Hope Archives - Sadhbh O'Neill

Don’t give into ecological grief. In anger and despair lie the seeds of resistance

This article appeared in the Irish Times on the 23rd January 2024 as https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/01/23/sadhbh-oneill-dont-give-into-ecological-grief-in-anger-and-despair-lie-the-seeds-of-resistance/ It is hard not to detect a sense of hopelessness among younger adults about the ecological and climate crises. These challenges are no longer hypothetical or way off into the future – they are coming to meet us in real-time on what …

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Rays of hope

This article was published in the Irish Times here under the title “Rapid expansion of solar power capacity gives us grounds to be hopeful” on the 23rd of March 2023. There is hardly ever any good news on the climate front. However, a recent report by the think tank Ember found that the energy price …

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Losing hope, finding courage

People often ask me, how do climate activists “keep going” in the face of so much inaction and indifference? It’s a good question. In the Greek mythology, princess Cassandra was bestowed with the gift of being able to see the future, but she was cursed because her prophecies would always come to pass but no …

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