The main thing that gives me hope for the future is looking back at the past. I know, intimately, how very, very far along the sustainability movement has come since its early days. I remember when corporations scoffed at anything remotely like "corporate sustainability," which is now standard practice. I remember when collections of Nobel Prize winners were signing statements warning us about the danger to the planet from the way we were trashing up the atmosphere ... and they weren't talking about global warming. They didn't even mention global warming (1992, "World Scientists' Warning to Humanity"). They were talking about the ozone hole, which is now considered a "fixed" problem. By looking backward, and reminding myself of the momentous changes that *have* occurred, I get more hope about the changes we still need to make, no matter how daunting they are.Alan Atkisson
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