What if 'voices of the future' put their money where their mouths are?
Utopia/Dystopia by Dylan Glynn What is it to be hopeful? I believe it’s an acceptance of risk and having a vision or feeling that a better outcome is possible. I don’t believe hope is without realism. For example, one may hope to get home in time for the Olympics on tele but know that traffic and emails may impinge this. Take myself, I hope my research has impact but am aware of the daunting facts that in some fields more than 60% of publications are never cited. So, what is it to be hopeful as a researcher interested in the natural environment and desiring impact through better communication of the research value in society and to children and young people 200 years from now? I am fascinated with dystopian literature; I feel dystopia makes great novels, though at its core it is not particularly hopeful, indeed the world these books are set nears a worst-case scenario in many cases. This is not to say they are devoid of hope, often the protagonists in these novels are trapped on ...