THE ASSIGNMENT SEEMED, at the time, nearly impossible. It was midsummer when Sierra's editors began inviting activists, writers, and thought leaders to contribute to a special section devoted to imagining a brighter future. Our essayists found themselves writing as a deadly pandemic swept the globe, as climate-fueled wildfires scorched the West and climate-energized storms battered the Southeast, and on the cusp of an election that was at once a referendum on the character of this country and a choice about whether to take bold action to address environmental crises or double down on the deadly fossil fuel economy. To conceive of a brighter future during such dark days was a task somewhere between an act of courage and an exercise in folly.
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