Action for positive change has too often been seen as a dutiful pastime for a committed minority who run a high risk of burnout. Yet is it possible to have an approach to activism that is enjoyable? And can we be ignited by our passion for life without driving ourselves into exhaustion? Chapter Twelve, Maintaining Energy and Enthusiasm, looks at how to keep our inspiration fresh by adopting an approach to action that has renewal, rewarding relationships and personal sustainability at its core.

When we embark on this Great Turning adventure, there are no guarantees that we’ll be able to turn things far or fast enough to safeguard our civilisation, or indeed, to ensure the continued existence of conscious life on Earth. We will probably not know in our lifetimes whether we are serving as deathbed attendants to a dying world or as midwives to the next stage of human evolution. The final chapter, Strengthened by Uncertainty, acknowledges both the inescapable nature of this uncertainty and its capacity to awaken and ennoble us at this turning in our human journey.