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San Francisco, August 28, 2030 Hi! It has been a while since I wrote last – but big news!… The US has announced plans to annex Ecotopia citing reports of “humanitarian crises and inhumane practices” (I presume it’s the war games), but I know that’s bullshit. I want to detail the…

(July 22) It’s been exactly a month since that reporter Will Weston wrote his article “Work and Play Among the Ecotopians”, and a little over a week since I first came here to see for this country for myself. I will say, getting here was not easy considering the relations…

(June 25, 2011) Over a decade has passed since I arrived in Ecotopia. Unfortunately, progress has been stagnant over the past 12 years. Ecotopia’s relations to the United States are still nonexistent, which is backed up by the fact that I haven’t heard from anyone in the U.S. Maybe they…

(September 28) After overcoming some of the more immediate culture shocks since my arrival in Ecotopia (the sexuality, the clothes, the transportation, the attitude) my eye has turned towards another aspect of society which has evolved in Ecotopia: religion. The major religions which existed here before Independence remain today, although…

(May 24) Wow, what a day… I have finally arrived in Ecotopia – a trip that I’ve been anxiously awaiting for the past couple of months. After crossing the border into Ecotopia, I was expecting to stumble upon a pleasant utopia – people riding their bicycles, children playing in crystal-clear…

Is there hope for us? The question is really can we all unite. Hope is a very powerful thing. However, the Anthropocene era is not affecting one person. The problem is that it is affecting the world. More specifically it is affecting the poor population that do not have the…

Hope is what you feel the first time you share your biggest regret with a friend, your vulnerability pounding in the heart like a galloping mad horse. You are hopeful that you will be understood. Hopeful that your mistake will not be held against you. Hopeful, in some sense, that…

I am not sure I understand. Once in class we criticized Trump’s plan to bring back jobs by keep holding on the fuel industry, pointing out that the renewable energy industry can offer blue-collar jobs too. In this case, the political system  provides a battle ground of discourse to distort…

I believe there will always be hope in the Anthropocene—but whether this hope is actually fruitful is another question. As Maria Popova states, “Critical thinking without hope is cynicism, but hope without critical thinking is naïveté” (Solnit, 32). Hope can be a great thing for a person or even a…

“It’s important to say what hope is not: it is not the belief that everything was, is, or will be fine.” -Rebecca Solnit To be completely honest, I’m very concerned about the future. I’m concerned because too many Americans are ignorant of, or don’t completely subscribe to, the risks and…