The phrase
"such pessimism" refers to a very negative and gloomy outlook or attitude towards something.
Full definition
Reasons
for such pessimism are underscored in the analytical portion of Pritchard's book: «Evaluating the Willow Creek Way of Doing Church.»
Certainly for Christian
faith such a pessimism would be disloyal to the conviction that behind, through, and in all our existence there is a relationship with a Love which is enduring, undefeated and indefeasible, faithful in its caring and able to preserve in its own unsurpassable life all that has been worthily achieved in the created order — including all that has been worthily achieved by us humans.
I suspect Lucy you're going to be snipped for politics there but in case not Freeman Dyson has a rather different analysis of why UK academics got stuck
in such pessimism and apocalypticism, partly through their snobbish reaction to Thatcher, in the middle of a brilliant 2007 interview with Benny Peiser which is also prescient on the AGW issue, as ever.
I am honestly disappointed that
such pessimism is greeted with approval from the usual justarsenal folks!