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Rachel Pritzker: Poverty's Not My Favorite Climate Change Solution

High Energy Planet

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Is It Hard to Embrace Optimism?

Roxanne Jones: I think pessimism is demotivating, and people who feel hopeless and defeated are have a harder time achieving great and hard things. She says there's like social pressure against acknowledging any improvements or successes in the world. "I don't know why, as people, we want to be motivated by a kind of terror, extreme everything is great and nothing between"

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