Hi. I'm Anne Strain Champs with this week's episode of To the Best of Our Knowledge,

and I want to begin today by confessing that I worry about the future. A lot. I'm guessing you

probably do too. I mean, where to begin? The pandemic, political violence, mass unemployment,

global warming.

We've been revisiting our series on Hope, and today we'll tackle the question that keeps me up at night.

Do we have a future?

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It's to the best of our knowledge.

Here's the question of the day.

Are we doomed?

I mean, seriously, it's possible that climate change is already irreversible.

I think everybody at some level is scared about it and also sad. I am. I cried twice when my

daughter was born the first time for joy as any father would the second time for sorrow this is never been

spoken to quite this way about climate change this is writer roy Scranton.

His baby daughter is now almost two years old.

Here is the takeaway.

Unless the world changes course quickly and dramatically,

the fundamental systems that support human civilization are at risk.

We begin tonight with our chief environmental correspondent. It was 10 or 15 minutes after she'd been born and I was holding her.

This brand new life looking out the window of our hospital room over the parking lot,

all the concrete and thinking about how all this land around us

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