A review by charzpov
Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in Without Going Crazy by Joanna Macy, Chris Johnstone

3.0

I read this as a part of a book group with my environmental group - ironically starting just as quarantine kicked in. Perhaps it was the time I read it, but this book does itself a disservice by suggesting it focuses on the environmental crisis. This has some incredibly valuable advice and focuses on some difficult issues, rationalising them into normalcy. However, I'm giving it 3/5 because firstly it is very modernised and commercialised and lacks some of the emotional rawness I love in these kinds of books. Also it, for me at least, wasn't as memorable as other spiritual and mindfulness books I have read, but I do like the originality of the approach and the systematic organisation.