I try to answer that on my first essay on Substack. Read it.
Anyone who wants to think a little deeper about the extraordinary journey we are on to remake our world and its implications for all of us and for our children and grandchildren.
An optimist. There is no upside in being a pessimist on this topic. I saw a bad movie whose name I don't recall. The bad guy. had just shot a man's wife and kid in front of him and put the gun to his head and said "snap out of it, this is real and its happening whether you like it or not". So is climate change. THe question is what we are going to do about it. Talk and propose impossible things, or move forward. I am all about moving forward.