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It is easy to feel pessimistic at the end of 2018. CO2 emissions are still climbing rapidly and reached an all time high in 2018 approaches to moderation are just as problematic. And the political response to all of this is largely one of chaos dominated by strongmen politicians, including the recent election of Bolsonaro in Brazil. So how can one stay optimistic? One way is to look at things that happened in 2018 that can be seen as early signs of positive change. Signs that we can and will do better over time. Here are just some examples: We have evidence that when we get our act together on an environmental issue, then a recovery is possible. While on an admittedly smaller The aggregate growth in CO2 emissions hides real progress that’s being made, such as the UK going for 1,000 hours without coal It also turns out that we do not need to be sl*ves to online networks. In 2018 Apple released Screen Time as part of iOS 12 2018 was also the year when Facebook engagement in the United States started to decrease for the first time Regulators globally started to take more serious interest in online networks in 2018 including a US congressional hearing ever elected with a record number of women entering politics. Voter turnout in the midterm elections was much higher than in the last We are also starting to make long overdue improvements to the democratic process starting at the state level. Maine carried out its in the midterms and several states including Colorado, Michigan and Missouri adopted anti-gerrymandering amendments For 2019 let’s continue to build the momentum of these positive developments. And in that spirit: Happy New Year! PS If you have developments from 2018 that give you reason for optimism please share them in the comments or on this Twitter thread I have written fairly extensively here on Continuations about climate change There are two flaws with this argument. First, we are already engaged in geo-engineering on a global scale. That’s exactly what our