Marcy shares her view that we need to stay hopeful and optimistic about our ability to impact the rate and effects of climate change. She explains why climate doom is the new climate denial and describes how she thinks we should educate young people about the climate and their future.

Links:

Sign up for The Climate Optimist at https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/c-change/climateoptimist/

And find the "Rewiring America" calculator here: https://www.rewiringamerica.org/app/ira-calculator

David Gardner discusses a wide range of topics, from the relationship between optimism and entrepreneurship to developing an investment strategy with an eye towards your own positive vision for the future, to David's outsized love for, of all things, board games!

Links:

Check out The Motley Fool at www.fool.com

Steven Pinker's TED Talk referenced in the interview is linked here.

Hosted by Bill Burke, founder of The Optimism Institute, this weekly podcast will feature inspiring leaders, authors, researchers, and big thinkers who are taking on some of our world's toughest challenges with an infectious sense of optimism. Blue Sky takes its name from the meditation reminder that there's always blue sky above, sometimes you just have to get your head above the clouds to see it.