That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'.
What we know is that the environmental movement had a series of dazzling victories in the late '60s and in the '70s where the whole legal framework for responding to pollution and to protecting wildlife came into law. It was just victory after victory after victory. And these were what came to be called 'command-and-control' pieces of legislation.
The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.
We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.
Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.
The quote suggests that in the absence of hope, politics tends to be driven by fear or negative forces, highlighting the importance of hope as a counterbalance and positive influence in politics.