Review from the Hermanus Times
Carole is a futurist and like Anita Roddick (CEO Bodyshop), among others, has been compelled to sound the warning bells of environmental concern. The book has been researched over a period of six years, and draws on a very comprehensive spread of references. The views of leaders in science, philosophy and theology, along with North American indigenous chiefs and our own San shamans are represented. It is mind-boggling to think of all the material which has had to be edited to produce such a compact, attractive and portable book. The triumph of the book is that it is neither too technical nor harshly judgemental. The reader feels comfortable to pursue the three main avenues of discovery: the past with the history of our physical development: the present with its priority problems; finally leading to the future where current beliefs are examined along with the major challenges of food resource and alternative energy.
The reader is asked to weigh carefully the choices to be made as they are truly awesome with far-reaching consequences. The hugely important topics are presented in a warm, accessible manner which serves to remind us that we have the power to address short-term thinking to a bigger picture of sustainable harmony.
Review by Julienne du Toit for Biophile magazine
If you were looking for an accessible book that contained in it all that is going wrong in the world, counterbalanced with heartlifting details of what is going right, you could do no better than “Miracles of Hope”.
What Knight has undertaken is enormously ambitious - a book that delves lucidly into a swift history of life on this planet, followed by a series of heart-rending chapters on the unwise ego-driven choices humans have made in the industrial and nuclear ages, through to the present, and to hope. We are now seeing the death throes of an old world order, and a great change towards something new.
Knight proposes that the defining obsession of the coming age will be to reverse the damage done, to “renegotiate human destiny” and find a way of living lightly on the Earth. This book will strengthen your resolve.
Review from the Helderberg Sun
Through “Miracles of Hope”, Carole Knight offers us a vision to help mobilise in this epochal time, as she calls it, and connects us to our personal resources and capacity to change our reality and the planet’s future, one manageable step at a time.