Commentary: How to Maintain Hope in the Face of Climate Change

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"If you want to feel better, if you want to get over that darkness and despair, go take some action," says Washington Gov.

Jay Inslee on a recent episode of the podcastVolts.

"Any action will do, 'blogging, tweeting, talking to your neighbor, voting, anything.' And, I would add, your spiritual health.

Rather than seeing our time as the worst possible days, Inslee, like Winston Churchill during World War II, thinks the opposite."

"We are the luckiest generation in human history to have something that is so meaningful to fight for," he says.

"We need to support government programs like the Inflation Reduction Act, which, despite its name, is really a series of programs to limit climate change," Inslee continues.

"I wake up feeling great.

That's what I wake up in the morning thinking....

If we do it, history will extol us."

In the Salt Lake Tribune, Thomas Reese writes that "the data and climate models lead me to depression and despair," but "spiritual writers warn us that despair is a temptation from the devil, who tries to get good people to give up the practice of virtue.

Likewise, communal despair leads to political paralysis as good people cede the political arena to selfishness and greed

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