This is a narrated version of the article "Beyond Optimists and Pessimists", which was published on https://lvzon.substack.com and on https://sustainsubstance.org

This is the first article in a series, in which I look for better stories on sustainability. In this introduction, I talk about stories as models of the world. The current stories we tell ourselves and each other about sustainability are usually oversimplified. Most tend to revolve around either technical solutions, or around a kind of modern romanticism. Yet others focus on a fatalistic or urgent sense of impeding doom. I think that we can do better than having to choose between technological optimism or environmental pessimism.

You can read the accompanying article on Substack and on https://sustainsubstance.org/beyond-optimists-and-pessimists.html

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