H is for Hopium

My hope derives from a different lived experience. Ecovillages are not imaginary.

One of the Easter eggs in Elizabeth Kolbert’s latest masterwork, H is for Hope, is the uncredited cameo in the audiobook by Christiana Figueres, UN midwife of the Paris Agreement, reading her own quote. There was barely a trace of her Costa Rican accent to give her away — you’d have to know her or…