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It Could Happen Here Weekly 12

It Could Happen Here

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Building a Capacity for Optimism

i think it's good to build a capacity for optimism b, building yor personal sense of agency and power. It doesn't just help your mental health, but it also contributes to the prefigurative activities that we need tl actually make a switch to a different system. A toxic optimism would be like reading an article about some new carbon capture technology and being like, oh, cool, well, i don't need to worry abt. But most optimism, i think, is is positive a. And i think this is a really important thing for people to understand and to be vigilant against.

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