Humanity’s greatest challenge today may not be the many global crises we face, but the quiet erosion of future hope in younger generations and across other age groups. But, at Job One we do not subscribe to that loss of hope!
Yes, humanity is navigating what many call the global metacrisis or a polycrisis of more than a dozen serious global problems. And yes, among these urgent global 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 coming hardships, 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 will 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 destructive rapture, or apocalypse will arrive, and unbelievably, they welcome it as the moment they are carried to heaven. In another way, they too have turned away from believing in the future of humanity.
At Job One for Humanity, we choose a different path. We focus on the present and on what can be done here and now on Earth to honestly face and solve the challenges before us. We believe good science, the lessons of the last 10,000 years, and the Earth’s long-term 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 honestly based on often painful facts. True hope does not deny reality.
That is why we promise to always treat you with respect and dignity, as an adult. We will always share the brutal and uncensored 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. (Migration is now referred to by politicians as sanitized Managed Retreat, so they do not have to call the public’s attention to the ravages of accelerating climate change.)
c. Offer effective solutions that can be used by governments and individuals to lessen the consequences of climate change.
That is the kind of honest hope you will find throughout our website: not false comfort, but practical strategies that can make a measurable difference.
Those who embrace this reality-based hope, face the climate future honestly, and prepare for it 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-building and hope-maintaining steps, you will also find deeper tools, ideas, and communities at Job One that can help restore your hope in the future. Building, 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 about climate change seem discouraging, never forget this: our organization exists because we hold an abundance of reality-based hope for humanity’s future. Hope grounded in truth, not illusion, is the kind that endures and transforms. Only by seeing reality clearly—without denial or avoidance—can we act effectively to change it.
To understand how an honest and practical hope can coexist with difficult truths, consider the following.
For more than six decades, humanity has known the dangers of climate change. Yet political inaction, systemic denial, and well-funded disinformation campaigns—particularly from the global fossil fuel industry—have delayed meaningful progress. This long delay has placed us squarely in the path of serious, unavoidable consequences that will unfold over the coming decades.
Acknowledging this truth is not an act of despair; it is an act of courage and preparation. Only when we recognize the full scope of what is coming can we prepare, adapt, build resilience, and—when necessary—migrate wisely and humanely. To ignore these realities would be to surrender our future; to face them honestly is to begin shaping it.
Unfortunately, many educators and communicators today, often with good intentions, present overly optimistic or unrealistic versions of hope. They emphasize future technologies or distant solutions that cannot be scaled or implemented in time to prevent the near-term crises now accelerating around us. While well-meaning, this approach risks delaying the urgent action that is still possible—and necessary.
At Job One for Humanity, we take a different path. We believe that mature, caring adults can handle difficult information and will rise to the challenge once they understand what is truly at stake. We respect you enough to share the whole picture—both the uncomfortable realities and the real possibilities for change.
Because when we look honestly at the challenges before us, we also discover the strength, creativity, and cooperation that have always defined humanity at its best. And from that honesty comes the most powerful kind of hope: a hope built on truth, courage, and action.
When you finish reading this, we invite you to explore more of our hope-building and hope-maintaining 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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