The second reason I’ve grown more optimistic is that the FLI experience has been empowering. What had triggered my London tears was a feeling of inevitability: that a disturbing future may be coming and there was nothing we could do about it. But the next three years dissolved my fatalistic gloom. If even a ragtag bunch of unpaid volunteers could make a positive difference for what’s arguably the most important conversation of our time, then imagine what we can all do if we work together!
