A letter from our friends at Fix the News

Angus Hervey has written a welcome letter “from our new home,” as Fix the News has moved to Substack.

Some of my favorite excerpts:

“Realistic optimism isn’t naive. It’s armor. It helps us face a challenging, sometimes frightening future with resilience.”

“Two things can be true at the same time. The same decade that’s given us a pandemic, populism and record temperatures has also produced the greatest ever expansion of global electricity access, record low murder rates in the United States, and the legalization of same-sex marriage on every continent save one. We are winning the war on cancer, more than half the world’s children now get a high school education, and while climate disasters dominate headlines, renewable energy has grown so fast that global emissions may already have peaked.”

“What all these years of tracking progress has taught me is that along almost every dimension we’re losing sleep over, it’s been worse before. The old men making war, the creeping slide into authoritarianism, even our flirtation with annihilation — none of these things are new, and yet somehow we muddled through. We are not uniquely more doomed than any previous generation, and we have far more tools at our disposal than they ever did.”

Well, Gus, from my home a few blocks from the U.S. Capitol, I want you to know how deeply grateful I am for your hard work to put what’s happening on our planetary home in perspective.