Hope is a practice, but not an easy one. We can be tempted into despair by haunting specters today as (i) each year gets hotter, (ii) the Doomsday Clock is now set to 89 seconds before midnight (the closest to midnight ever), (iii) more nations “adapt” to authoritarian rule, and (iv) young people struggle to see futures worth planning for. They are debt-ridden, not hopeful, and are deciding NOT to have children of their own.