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A climate crisis and other pressures on planetary ecology are cause for profound anxiety. Climate change threatens to trap hundreds of millions of people in poverty and to separate further an already deeply divided world. However, a new generation of activists is offering inspiration, serving as a hope-maker. This book offers an accessible and empirically informed philosophical discussion of climate change, global poverty, and the importance of a political response that offers hope. There are reasons to worry that the era of pervasive human planetary impact, the Anthropocene, could produce terrible global injustices and massive environmental destruction. But it need not be so. Growth in productive capacity and the struggles to share its benefits widely have made another world possible. We still have reason to hope for a world in which international cooperation to manage Earth systems sustainably prevails, in which the natural treasures of the Earth are valued, in which a vision of prosperioty is realized and the scourges of disease, ignorance, and poverty are overcome, in which powerful lobbies defending private interests that threaten environmental stability are contained, and in which democratic politics responding to the values of an educatted public rules. The work of bringing about such a world is the work of mobilizing hope.