Why should my daughter, or anyone, feel hopeful in a world where there is climate change denial? Where there is so much hate, vilification, and extremism in the virtual world in which we now spend so much of our lives? And when the politicians we elect to solve these problems increasingly propagate them? Or the solutions that are put in place are simply rolled back in new electoral cycles? Could I, after all that I had seen, give one solid reason why we shouldn’t all just give up?

