Rob Hopkins: How to Fall in Love with the Future: A Time Traveller's Guide to Changing the World

Tuesday 5 August, 7:30pm, Electric Daisy DE1 3NT

Rob Hopkins: How to Fall in Love with the Future: A Time Traveller’s Guide to Changing the World 

What would the world look like if we all got to work imagining—and then building—a world we were deeply in love with? 

This is the question posed by climate activist and Transition Network cofounder Rob Hopkins in his latest book, How to Fall in Love with the Future: A Time Traveller’s Guide to Changing the World.

In 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted every aspect of daily life, Rob responded the way a lot of people did: by starting a podcast. But it wasn’t any ordinary podcast. In each episode, Hopkins and his guests would “time travel” together to the year 2030. His guests came from all walks of life, but they all shared a willingness to suspend their worries about the future long enough to mentally inhabit and then describe a world they were thrilled to be a part of. What Rob discovered was, by visiting a positive future, it forced him to rethink the work he’d been doing as a climate activist for decades.

There are an infinite number of possible futures that lie ahead and Rob invites us to travel to future worlds we would actually want to live in.

"Rob Hopkins is one of the world’s great optimists. He really believes that things can get better, and, when he’s around, they usually do. This book will lift your spirits and give you hope." —Brian Eno, musician, producer and artist

"No one makes environmental optimism more credible or compelling than Rob Hopkins. Read this and don’t weep." —Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, chef and campaigner

“Rob Hopkins puts imagination back at the heart of future-dreaming, offering us an irresistible invitation to dream bigger and then make those dreams a reality.”— Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut Economics

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