ABSTRACT
The author argues that grief and climate change are inextricably entwined. Anthropoceneans disconnect hope from emotions of optimism, and from an unfolding future. They find hope in practice and being. Disruptive frictions can be welcomed for the opportunities they provide to effect transformation. Prolonged drought has shown the potential to transform water usage practices. Disasters generate networks of care and sharing. Anthropoceneans need to be able to live in uncertainty. Of course, in many ways human life is always uncertain and fragile, but the loss of a hopeful future means people need to confront their existential uncertainty in different ways. Anthropoceneans have freed themselves from linear or progressivist understandings of history and progress. If the cost of this is the loss of a hopeful future, there are nevertheless new possibilities in thinking of causality in relational rather than separationist terms.
