Should we be optimistic about the future?

The future is ours to collectively make and depends on all actions every day. With a deliberate effort to intelligently manage resources and human populations relative to carrying capacity, humans can achieve a fulfilling way of life in relative stability. Although there are many constraints and genuine challenges to this outcome, there is no end to human ingenuity.

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From our recommended reading list: "Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe" by Niall Ferguson

Drawing from multiple disciplines, including economics, cliodynamics, and network science, this book offers not just a history but a general theory of disasters, showing why our ever more bureaucratic and complex systems are getting worse at handling crisis. Read if you want to learn about humanity's vulnerabilities.

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Studying the form and function of systems in nature reveals much about what can be innovated in other contexts. Nature has already done all the hard work and research. Let's use it!

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To mitigate risk of 'all eggs in one basket' and consistent with diversifying investments, multiple isolated lines of development are permitted to proceed in parallel, each of which may be based on different assumptions.

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