{"product_id":"is-hope-necessary-thinking-about-language-justice-and-melting-glaciers-in-a-time-of-fear-and-foreboding-9780990496915","title":"Is Hope Necessary? Thinking about Language, Justice, and Melting Glaciers in a Time of Fear and Foreboding","description":"\u003cp\u003eIs Hope Necessary? is an extended inquiry into the causes of our present discontents. It addresses a number of enormously difficult, possibly unanswerable questions: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow did it come to this-that we seem bent on self-destruction and on taking the biological basis of life on the planet with us?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow deep are the roots of our multiple crises? What is it about our species that gives us the capacity to be so destructive?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat is the connection between the inhumanity we display to each other and the injury we inflict on the planet?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese questions are urgent because they bear on the most important question of all: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is to be done-and the corollary-what is to be undone? How much needs to change in order to avoid catastrophe?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is easy to despair and many do. Can we continue to struggle and resist even in the absence of hope. Is Hope Necessary? begins and ends with that question, Neumann believes we can and we must for only if we resist and continue to struggle do we have a chance of salvaging, for as long as possible, as much as we can, of all that is threatened and all that we cherish. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Osha Neumann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Street Spirit\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/09\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 266\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.72d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780990496915","brand":"Street Spirit","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738264318089,"sku":"9780990496915","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_131e10cd-0a37-4560-a146-7a13425e2230.jpg?v=1792524168","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/is-hope-necessary-thinking-about-language-justice-and-melting-glaciers-in-a-time-of-fear-and-foreboding-9780990496915","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}