How do you stay hopeful in a world threatened by climate change? Author and climate activist Daniel Sherrell on coping with existential dread
Photo-Illustration: The Cut. Author photo: Giovana Schluter Nunes; Book jacket: Penguin Books How do you live in a world that is ending? This is the central question of Daniel Sherrell’s debut book Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World. Half-memoir and half-love letter to a future child, Sherrell’s book provides insight on how to navigate a world threatened by climate change — from the overwhelming anxiety it conjures to the existential quandary it wreaks.
Sherrell, an activist who helped lead the passing of green bills like the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, struggled with these same ontological plights. In a narrative that spans Sherrell’s early 20s through his 30s, Warmth captures moments in his life as he fought to overcome global warming and his own questions about building a future and family. The Cut spoke with him about dealing with climate anxiety, remaining hopeful, and the benefits of writing to fictitious people.
In the chapter “Loss,” you describe the onslaught of bad news you receive about climate change, from politicians undermining green bills to Hurricane Sandy. Where do you find the hope to keep pushing on despite worsening conditions? For me, there are still extreme moral stakes here. How am I going to give that up? How can I give that up when people — who are much more exposed to the problem than I — haven’t given up. We’re in this together, and there’s still a lot of uncertainty. In that uncertainty is where I locate hope, which is basically the will to keep holding hands with the people you love and step forward into the future rather than cower from it or put blinders on.
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