When the Dalai Lama and Greta Thunberg spoke for the first time in January 2021, millions of people around the world took notice. "It is encouraging to see how you have opened the eyes of the world to the urgency to protect our planet, our only home," the Dalai Lama wrote to Greta before their meeting.

A Future We Can Love shares the words of these two great figures, generations apart, bringing them into dialogue with dozens of visionary scientists, activists, and spiritual luminaries. These include indigenous scholar and artist Lyla June, medical biochemist and author Diana Beresford-Kroeger, climate scientist and Zen teacher Kritee Kanko, interfaith environmental leader Dekila Chungyalpa, Buddhist teacher Willa Blythe Baker, Rabbi Steve Leder, and many more. Through this world-changing conversation, readers embark on a four-part journey toward active hope in the face of the climate crisis: from knowledge of climate science, through the capacity for change, and to the will that is needed and the actions we can take. The book will help you:

• recognize interdependence as key to our well-being and as a lens for understanding both the climate crisis and its solutions
• clarify why feedback loops leave us no time to wait on climate action
• comfort your climate anxiety and metabolize grief or burnout into wonderment and useful energy
• develop your own rituals and practices for connecting to Earth and renewing hope
• overcome common obstacles to speaking and acting clearly on behalf of the human and wild communities most affected by the climate crisis

A Future We Can Love inspires each of us to rise to the occasion to ensure a brighter future for generations to come.

A Future We Can Love: How We Can Reverse the Climate Crisis with the Power of Our Hearts and Minds, Susan Bauer-Wu with Stephanie Higgs, Shambhala Publications, Hardcover, 280 pages, $24.95

Susan Bauer-Wu is an organizational leader, clinical scientist, and mindfulness teacher whose lifework has been dedicated to alleviating suffering and fostering well-being through contemplative wisdom. She is the president of the Mind & Life Institute and previously was the Kluge professor of contemplative end-of-life care at the University of Virginia. She is an avid gardener and hiker who is nourished by trees and animals and awed by our reciprocal connection with nature. She is deeply committed to the care of our planet and to policies and personal actions that will ensure a future we can love for our children and grandchildren. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, and is also the author of Leaves Falling Gently.

CONTENTS: A Future We Can Love
Opening Blessing		ix
Introduction		1
part one: Knowledge
1.	The Science Why the Ice, Wind, Clouds, and Trees Matter	21
2.	The Spirit The Problem with Business As Usual	49
part two: Capacity
3.	Earth's Capacity Let the Earth Do What the Earth Does	77
4.	Human Capacity The Necessity of a Sense of Efficacy	103
part three: Will
5.	Heartbreak The Darkness and the Light	133
6.	Wonderment A Present We Can Love, a Future We Can Imagine	157
part four: Action
7.	The Beginning of the Age of Enough What to Do and How to Think About Doing It	183
Epilogue		229
Acknowledgments		231
Interlocutors		233
Resources		241
Notes		247
Credits		263
About the Authors		265