Cool Petaluma Book Club
Our book for October, From What Is to What If is a book that illustrates that despite the future looking grim and without hope, there is proof that things can change dramatically and unexpectedly for the better. So in October, join us for a hopeful conversation about human imagination and resilience.
From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
In these times of deep division and deeper despair, if there is a consensus about anything in the world, it is that the future is going to be awful. There is an epidemic of loneliness, an epidemic of anxiety, a mental health crisis of vast proportions, especially among young people. There’s a rise in extremist movements and governments. Catastrophic climate change. Biodiversity loss. Food insecurity. The fracturing of ecosystems and communities beyond, it seems, repair. The future—to say nothing of the present—looks grim.
Imagination is central to empathy, to creating better lives, to envisioning and then enacting a positive future. Yet imagination is also demonstrably in decline at precisely the moment when we need it most. In this passionate exploration, Hopkins asks why imagination is in decline, and what we must do to revive and reclaim it. Once we do, there is no end to what we might accomplish.
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