Joanna Macy: An eco-philosopher’s lessons for living in curiosity, dancing with despair and hope

Daily Maverick | 06.04.2026 15:42
These days, climate graphs look like fever charts, extinction rates read like obituaries and the daily news has the emotional texture of a storm that never clears. Across the world, people working closest to the fractures – scientists, conservationists, journalists, activists – are discovering a shared, disorienting truth: it’s not just ecosystems that are unravelling. Our emotional worlds are too.