![]() ![]() Rebecca Solnit: “What I call hope is really just full recognition of the unpredictability of the future, because both pessimists and optimists join forces in assuming they know what's going to happen next, and that it requires nothing of us. She is the author of more than twenty books on feminism, Western history, social change and insurrection, popular power and hope and disaster, among other topics. Author of " Recollections of My Nonexistence," " A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster" and " Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities." Rebecca Solnit, writer, author, activist and historian. ![]() ![]() The author, activist and historian explores whether disasters like pandemics reveal a surprising truth – that human beings are more generous, more altruistic, more hopeful than we commonly believe. “What if everything we’ve been told about human nature is wrong?” That’s the question Rebecca Solnit is asking. (PAU BARRENA/AFP via Getty Images) This article is more than 3 years old. Healthcare workers dealing with the new coronavirus crisis in Spain, applaud in return as they are cheered on by people outside "El Clinic" University Hospital in Barcelona on March 26, 2020. ![]()
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