That was the message the legendary Jane Goodall, a force in science and activism, delivered to 1,000 or more people in Missoula on Sunday night.

“I see our species at the mouth of a very long and very dark tunnel,” she said, decrying rampant environmental destruction, prejudice, greed, poverty and war. But there’s a “little star” at the end of the tunnel: hope. To reach it, she said, humankind must struggle to overcome any obstacles in the way.

“Hope isn’t just wishful thinking, it’s about action.”