Humanity’s greatest challenge today may not be the numerous global crises we face, but the quiet erosion of future hope in younger generations and across most other age groups. But, we do not subscribe to that loss of hope!
Yes, humanity is navigating what many call the global metacrisis or a polycrisis. And yes, among these urgent challenges is the accelerating climate change emergency. Although climate change unfolds more slowly than other global crises, it may in fact be the most profound of all — because it acts as the central hub, amplifying and multiplying the dangers of nearly every other global challenge.
When so much of the news is filled with warnings and hardship, it is understandable that many thoughtful people struggle to maintain hope for humanity’s future. Yet, maintaining a realistic and practical hope is one of the most essential things we need to build a better future. Without it, progress stalls. With it, whole worlds of possibility open.
Some people, overwhelmed by pessimism, have already given up. Certain billionaires, for instance, envision escaping Earth by building spaceships to colonize distant planets or by storing their consciousness inside supercomputers in a quest for digital immortality. For those who already have everything money can buy, chasing eternal life in space has become the final prize.
Others place their hope in religious prophecy, believing an End of Days, a rapture, or apocalypse will arrive — and welcoming it as the moment they are carried to heaven. In another way, they too have turned away from believing in Earth’s future or humanity’s survival.
At Job One for Humanity, we choose a different path. We focus on the present and on what can be done here on Earth to address and solve the challenges before us. We believe science, history, and our past evolutionary history do not support the fatalism or despair described above.
At the same time, we know that genuine hope must be practical, grounded, and honest. It cannot deny reality. That is why we promise to treat you as an adult: we will share the difficult scientific facts about climate change and its implications for our shared future. But alongside those facts, we will always present a realistic and practical hope — and specific ways for you, your family, and your business to make that hope real.
To provide that hope, we will:
a. share tools to help you maintain hope and cope with anxiety,
b. offer guidance on how to prepare, adapt, build resilience, and, if needed, migrate so that you can manage and overcome the numerous global challenges ahead.
That is the kind of hope you will find throughout our website: not false comfort, but practical strategies that make a measurable difference. Those who face the climate future honestly and prepare wisely will:
a. be safer,
b. more comfortable,
c. live and thrive far longer than those who deny the facts and fail to prepare, and they will
d. sustain the motivation to keep building a better world for themselves and others.
Beyond these first hope-maintaining steps, you will also find deeper tools, ideas, and communities here that can help restore your hope in the future. Sharing and nurturing realistic hope may be the single most crucial factor in humanity’s survival through this century of global challenges.
Even when the facts seem discouraging, never forget this: our organization exists because we hold an abundance of hope for humanity’s future. And, only by seeing reality clearly, without denial, can we act effectively to change it.
When you finish reading this, we invite you to explore more of our hopeful and hope-building resources below:
a. The many benefits we will receive as we fix climate change to create a possible great global rebirth. (Start reading just after the prologue.)
b. Empowering, Hope-Filled Climate Change Evolutionary Benefits & Perspectives.
c. ClimateSafe Villages, a new nonprofit we helped cofound to provide practical support and community for climate readiness.
d. The Universe One Project, a unique Job One initiative designed to guide survival, resilience, and thriving as we face accelerating climate change and the twelve other major crises confronting humanity.
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