When things look bleak, thinking in terms of ‘hope horizons’ can help

By Annalee Newitz

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OUTSIDE my window, the skies are brown and the solar is a deep reddish-orange. Sadly, that isn’t because I’ve moved off-world to an pleasing alien planet orbiting a red dwarf indispensable person.

Right here is only what “outside” seems to be love in San Francisco when large swathes of the western US are on fire. Even the sunshine itself is alarming. Its Mordor-esque gloom makes all the pieces seem love it is far the sinful color. (For a placing characterize of California’s Bidwell Bar Bridge in opposition to the backdrop of the snort’s wildfires,  (glimpse “Wildfire nightmare captured in harrowing characterize of California burning“.) …