If having one foot on one continent and another on another continent means going international - then we have just done it!! The book and White Rock Publishers have just gone international with an address in London town!!! What excitement!!!!
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.
My New Year Resolution is to do more blogging so here goes!
Well 2006 has already kicked into action with the work of the Greenpeace activists who are trying to disrupt the Japanese whalers. My husband Clive and I had the opportunity to meet Shane Rattenbury, Greenpeace’s Head of Oceans, when we delivered six copies of “Miracles of Hope: Surviving and Thriving in the 21st Century” to the expedition when they were berthed at Cape Town’s Harbour at the end of last year. We made a special effort to do this as there are many references to Greenpeace in the book and we felt we wanted them to know that others were acknowledging their work in different media around the world.
Some people believe that their efforts to thwart the whalers’ bloody carnage has a bit of David and Goliath about it and certainly to see video footage of one small inflatable taking on the might of a huge whaling vessel, one can get this impression. But what also comes across is the incredible bravery and commitment of these Greenpeace activists! To be a fly on the hide of an elephant takes guts and they have it in plenty - Good on ya Greenpeace!!! Our global New Year Resolution should be to do more to protect our precious EARTH!!!!
I have just spent three special, special days participating in the SABC Careers Faire, which was organised to assist young people from predominently previously disadvantaged backgrounds investigate career options. I was at the Faire as the “Environmental Journalist” and fielded many questions from school pupils, exhibitors and various visitors alike who were interested in my book “Miracles of Hope: Surviving and Thriving in the 21st Century”. It is indeed gratifying to see the work that is being done “out there” in the interests of environmental education and preservation - truly heart warming!!
I have recently returned from a trip to Johannesburg where I attended the SAB Environmental Journalist Awards 2005 ceremony. It was a great experience as I was able to hook up once again with Dr Ian Player. I also networked like crazy in order to get the book known to as many people as possible. Johannesburg was hot, dusty and busy as it most often is and when I arrived back in Cape Town I was reminded why I love it so much down here. Not that I don’t also love Johannesburg - especially some special people, the jacaranda trees in October, the beautiful gardens and the frenetic pace!