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Everything looks a bit grim at the moment…

If you happen to be on earth that is.

Rising CO2, record high temperatures, massive winter storms, failing ice sheets and melting glaciers…

Sea levels creeping higher…

Seasonal patterns shifting, leaving living creatures in the lurch…

Species disappearing now at mass extinction rates

And the political will to do something about it…

is still struggling to find politicians who comprehend the scale of the trouble we are in.

Yes it’s all looking pretty grim.

But thankfully there is a solution!

And that solution is 100% available to us right now.

In something called…

the future.

It turns out all the things that cause the problems we face today

Are things that created them in the past.

We didn’t make this mess,

people who came before us made their future this way.

So, if in our future we do things differently than they did them in the past…

The problems we now face will also be in the past.

Not only that…

but, in the future we can do things so differently than they have done them in the past

That we could actually go beyond solving the next immediate crisis,

And live in a world where we are making active improvements to our standard of living

and the health of our ecosystem.

And, all it will take to get there is moving into a future of our own making

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