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Cheer Up! Why It’s A Great Time To Be Alive

Climate change, famine and war threaten humanity each day. And yet we’ve never been better equipped to take on these issues than we are right now. Gregg Easterbrook joins us to make the case that things aren’t as bad as they seem, which he writes about in “It’s Better Than It Looks: Reasons for Optimism in an Age of Fear” (PublicAffairs).