… in times of perplexing, unprecedented, and dangerous threats, we can learn much from childhood imagination—that wonderful capacity to generate endless “How abouts.” For our species to succeed and prosper through this century, as it has during earlier eras of peril, we’ll need to activate our ability to imagine possibilities. Sometimes it’s a mistake to fasten too quickly on constraints: it just makes those constraints appear inescapable and robs us of any chance for genuine change.
Thomas Homer-Dixon spoke to CACOR on 2022 January 12, Limits to Growth,World 3 at 50, What it got right and wrong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZrh7gOSBc8
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