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DESCRIPTION:We still meet via Zoom.\nEmail strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com for the 
 invite.\n\n\n\nFor our April meeting we'll be reading the first five 
 chapters of\nThe Optimist's Telescope - Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age  
 by Bina Venkataraman.\n\n"Instant gratification is the norm today—in our 
 lives, our culture, our economy, and our politics. Many of us have 
 forgotten (if we ever learned) how to make smart decisions for the long 
 run. Whether it comes to our finances, our health, our communities, or our 
 planet, it’s easy to avoid thinking ahead.\n\nThe consequences of this 
 immediacy are stark: Superbugs spawned by the overuse of antibiotics 
 endanger our health. Companies that fail to invest stagnate and fall 
 behind. Hurricanes and wildfires turn deadly for communities that could 
 have taken more precaution. Today more than ever, all of us need to know 
 how we can make better long-term decisions in our lives, businesses, and 
 society.\n\nBina Venkataraman sees the way forward. A former journalist 
 and adviser in the Obama administration, she helped communities and 
 businesses prepare for climate change, and she learned firsthand why 
 people don’t think ahead—and what can be done to change that. In The 
 Optimist’s Telescope, she draws from stories she has reported around the 
 world and new research in biology, psychology, and economics to explain how 
 we can make decisions that benefit us over time. With examples from 
 ancient Pompeii to modern-day Fukushima, she dispels the myth that human 
 nature is impossibly reckless and highlights the surprising practices each 
 of us can adopt in our own lives—and the ones we must fight for as a 
 society. The result is a book brimming with the ideas and insights all of 
 us need in order to forge a better 
 future."\n\n------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nStrike 
 Debt Bay Area hosts this non-technical book group discussion monthly on new 
 and radical economic thinking. Previous readings have included Doughnut 
 Economics, Limits, Banking on the People, Capital and Its 
 Discontents, How to Be an Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century, The 
 Deficit Myth,  Revenge Capitalism, the Edge of Chaos blog 
 symposium \nand Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the 
 Commons.\n\n \n\nJoin us – all are welcome!\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/03/13/18840794.php
SUMMARY:Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: The Optimist's Telescope:Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age
LOCATION:Online.  See below.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/03/13/18840794.php
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