Fiction only becomes future if we let it. Our new piece in The Revelator imagines a not-too-distant future we can still avoid — if we choose differently now. Read it, share it, and help bend the plot to a more hopeful narrative.
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Uniting ocean enthusiasts over a pint! Ocean Hoptimism is a monthly gathering of ocean conservation, science, exploration, art, recreation, policy, & beer enthusiasts in SF Bay Area. Pint-sized hope for a brighter ocean future!
www.oceanhoptimism.org
In just 8 days, Ocean Hoptimism sets sail with Dr. Simon Scarpetta! 🌊
Join us for Floating to Fiji: The Trans-Pacific Voyage of Iguanas — the wild true story of how a few resilient lizards rafted over 5,000 miles of open ocean to start a brand-new species. 🦎
Join us on October 23, 7-8pm, at Faction Breing, Alameda.
#OceanHoptimism #CreatureFeature
Join us for Floating to Fiji: The Trans-Pacific Voyage of Iguanas — the wild true story of how a few resilient lizards rafted over 5,000 miles of open ocean to start a brand-new species. 🦎
Join us on October 23, 7-8pm, at Faction Breing, Alameda.
#OceanHoptimism #CreatureFeature
This week, 160 scientists confirmed what many in coral conservation have dreaded: 🌊 global reefs have crossed a tipping point. Warming is driving irreversible change across 84% of reef regions.
At Ocean Hoptimism, we face that truth head-on: where grief, science, and action meet. Not to deny collapse, but to refuse surrender.
Read our latest essay:
👉 https://www.oceanhoptimism.org/post/after-the-bleaching
After the Bleaching
“Hope with teeth” is not a comfort mantra; it’s a discipline of clear seeing and sustained action. A kind of emotional triage. We grieve what’s gone, stabilize what’s wounded, and mobilize everyone who still has a pulse. Because the opposite of hope isn’t hopelessness, it’s indifference. And indifference is how tipping points become tombstones.
We fought this battle once. In the 1970s, “Save the Whales” wasn’t just a slogan—it was a moral awakening. After decades of advocacy, whales rebounded & hope was rewarded. Now those guardrails are being dismantled. A Trump-era proposal would weaken the Marine Mammal Protection Act, lowering population goals, diluting harm definitions, and putting short-term profit over ocean health. Read our latest blog for why this moment demands clarity, courage, and collective action.
Rolling Back the Seas
How Political Power Plays and Pseudo-Science Are Being Used to Dismantle 50 Years of Ocean Safeguards—and Why We Must Fight BackLet us be unapologetically clear: the proposal now being advanced — backed by the Trump administration and Republican allies — to retool the Marine Mammal Protection Act is not a benign recalibration of environmental law. It is a concerted effort to rewrite the rules in favor of industry, at the expense of marine ecosystems we can scarcely afford to lose.For many of us,
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🎈“They all float…” 🤡 but not all on red balloons: some on storm-torn trees. 🦎🌊
Join us Oct 23 at Ocean Hoptimism to hear how iguanas rafted 5,000 miles to Fiji.
7–8 pm • Faction Brewing • Alameda
Creature-feature science you can’t miss!
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A recent Ezra Klein–Ta-Nehisi Coates exchange on what’s worth persuading over sparked our latest blog post. Some things, like catch quotas or harbor fees, are negotiable. But a living ocean & the dignity of those who depend on it? Not up for debate. 🌊
Full post here👇
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https://www.oceanhoptimism.org/post/not-everything-is-up-for-debate
Not Everything Is Up for Debate
Toward a Coates-Framed Ocean EthicA recent podcast conversation between journalist Ezra Klein and writer Ta-Nehisi Coates began with the promise of real exchange and then slid off the rails. The tone stayed civil but flint-struck; they kept circling the same ridge without ever landing on the same ledge.What jarred was not simply disagreement but dissonance: Klein, a white liberal host, kept asking a Black man to contemplate how he might reason with those who deny his very humanity; as if the bur
We could’ve promoted Oct 23’s Ocean Hoptimism talk with scholarly dignity. Instead, we made a horror-trailer spoof: “It Came From The Desert… they drift… they arrive… they SURVIVE.” 🏝️🦎
Meet Dr Scarpetta on Oct 23, 7-8pm, Faction Brewing.
#OceanHoptimism #Conservation
Meet Dr Scarpetta on Oct 23, 7-8pm, Faction Brewing.
#OceanHoptimism #Conservation
We love that Esabella Bonner & Black Surf Santa Cruz is carving space for joy, healing, and equity in the waves. With support from Justice Outside, they’re reshaping who gets to ride the waves. Born from protest, built on community, powered by purpose. This is #oceanoptimism in action!
https://justiceoutside.org/justice-outside-black-surf-santa-cruzs-fairy-grant-parent/
https://justiceoutside.org/justice-outside-black-surf-santa-cruzs-fairy-grant-parent/
We’re gonna need a bigger… pint. Sea. Stories. Suds. That’s the vibe. Join us every 4th Thursday at Faction Brewing for pints, purpose, and the hope we need for the ocean we love.
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