But hope? That's the stuff. Hope's the belief that if we change the world for the better, even by just a *little*, that we will ascend a gradient towards a better future, and as we rise up that curve, new terrain will be revealed to us that we couldn't see from our lower vantage-point. It's not necessary - or even possible - to see a course from here to the world you want to live in. You can get there in stepwise fashion, one beneficial change at a time:

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