Alex Steffen–futurist, author, founder of Worldchanging–believes that [imagining a *beautiful* future is the key to saving humanity](https:\/\/vimeo.com\/201938065) in the coming climate crisis:<\/p>\n
> Above all, the desire to make things beautiful…is a thing people are willing to fight for.<\/p>\n
> One way to look at the planetary crisis is to create something beautiful at the level of the necessary.<\/p>\n
> It’s not only about how to prevent something terrible…it’s about how to make beauty.<\/p>\n
> There are millions of people right now dying for the chance to see a future worth fighting for. And it’s our job to imagine it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Alex Steffen–futurist, author, founder of Worldchanging–believes that [imagining a *beautiful* future is the key to saving humanity](https:\/\/vimeo.com\/201938065) in the coming climate crisis: > Above all, the desire to make things beautiful…is a thing people are willing to fight for. > One way to look at the planetary crisis is to create something beautiful at the…more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[364,369,381],"tags":[358],"class_list":["post-6003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beauty","category-futurism","category-sustainability","tag-tagged"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-1yP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6004,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6003\/revisions\/6004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}