Book review: How to fall in love with the future, by Rob Hopkins

Years ago when I was more involved in the Transition Towns movement, I took part in one of their community training sessions. One of the highlights was an imaginative exercise where we interviewed someone from the future about how they had solved climate change and the energy crisis, and the steps that had got them there. It was a kind of purposeful improvisation that was equal parts silly and moving, unlocking something hopeful in participants who had gathered to think about the world’s big...