Reconnecting People to Nature Is a Prerequisite for the Future Conservation Agenda: Response from Swaisgood and Sheppard

Abstract

...Our point is not that hope is the logical alternative but that it is the necessary alternative—for if we extrapolate the legion scenarios of despair to their conclusion then we are merely fighting with time over an inevitably bleak future. Empirical research by conservation psychologists tells us that if we do not find reason for hope, motivation will falter, and so will conservation action....