🌞 What might go right?

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The Essay: What might go right?

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Quote of the Issue

“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.” - Arthur C. Clarke

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The Essay

🌞 What might go right?

What might go wrong? I think all of us can devise a pretty long and scary list these days. Inflation goes even higher. A super-infectious and deadly COVID-19 variant emerges. Russia goes nuclear in Ukraine. The next US president is more interested in political vengeance than sound governance. All those climate models turn out to be overly optimistic. Whatever our disaster of choice, most Americans are pretty gloomy right now. It’s not hard to find polls where 70 percent of more of us think the county is headed in the wrong direction.

The more interesting question, then, is “What might go right?” I have some upbeat thoughts about that.