Karenna Gore, director of the Center for Earth Ethics, talks about the moral dimensions of the ecological crisis, her interest in American indigenous traditions, studying liberation theology with James Cone, challenging GDP as a measure of social well-being, connections between women’s rights and environmental issues, and what gives her hope.

Anthropologist, writer, and filmaker Isabella Alexander discusses her work relating to transnational migration, how migration issues intersect with global climate disruption, and how she finds hope while raising awareness about complex systemic injustices.

Jeremy Lent, public intellectual and author, talks about how modern patterns of thought drive the global environmental crisis, and the urgent need for worldviews that enable the formation of sustainable societies. He also discusses the notion of cognitive frames, geoengineering schemes, neoliberalism, ecological civilization, and why he embraces hope without optimism.

Almost 94 years old, John B. Cobb, Jr.’s work has been influential across a range of disciplines, including theology, economics, ecology, biology, and social ethics. He discusses the notion of ecological civilization, ecological economics, Pope Francis, integral ecology, process philosophy, what gives him hope.