Hey folks—
How do I remain an optimist about the human future, even as the planetary crisis worsens?
A few thoughts.
Alex
PS: A little more to chew on:
More here on the mythological universal conversion event, and how we might think more clearly about the future.
Why real optimism springs from grasping what fights are now winnable and why outspoken optimism is actually critical to winning those fights.
The long-running debate about whether “optimistic” or “resolute” is the right description of this stance, and whether “steely-eyed optimism” splits the difference.
I’ve written many times about how predatory delay is not only a strategy for playing out the end of the unsustainable, but is itself as a waning industry, for example here.
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