A review by kateraed
Who Do We Choose to Be?: Facing Reality, Claiming Leadership, Restoring Sanity by Margaret J. Wheatley

5.0

Wheatley does what so few in the ecological movement are doing: She looks at the human impact. The information she lays out on how ecological destruction will lead to civilization collapse is frightening and, for those who can accept it, a revelation that should alter our approach to the problems of the coming century.

My only criticism: Wheatley conflates true hope (which faces reality in all its complexity and despair, and says "keep going" anyway) with optimism (which is "oh everything will be okay don't worry"). So she speaks against hope, when she really wants to be speaking against optimism. Without hope, we would sit down and numbly give up (rub ashes on our face? binge Netflix?).