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There鈥檚 no place like home.

And home is always worth fighting for, as Mary Anna茂se聽Heglar, cohost of the 鈥淗ot Take鈥� podcast, .听

That鈥檚 one counter to a sense of 鈥渄oomerism鈥� that can rise from reports like this week鈥檚 from the United Nations鈥櫬營ntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. While it鈥檚 too late to stop the Earth from heating up, it is not too late to prevent the most dire scenarios from becoming reality, as Stephanie Hanes writes in our top story. And there is, she says, still plenty of reason to reject fear and despair.

Some people draw hope from human innovation and the ability to . Others take heart from the sense that 鈥渋ndividual action actually does matter,鈥� she says. And that doing 鈥渢he next right thing,鈥� as Jane Goodall famously puts it, is the way to solve big problems.

As Ms. Goodall recently , 鈥淵ou just plod on and do what you can to make the world a better place.鈥澛�

Still others, including Stephanie, her sources, and Ms. Goodall, point to young people and their willingness to help the Earth as a great source of hope.

It鈥檚 not hope as soft or fluffy 鈥� Emily Dickinson鈥檚 鈥渢hing with feathers.鈥� It鈥檚 more a sense of resolve. Humanity has done hard things in the past, and can again.

One of her sources describes climate change as a 鈥渒itchen table issue,鈥澛爋ne she sees people talking with their children about.

鈥淭he more people start thinking like that, the more big system changes happen,鈥� Stephanie says.

The world is at a turning point, the scientist told her, 鈥渁nd she sees green sprouts everywhere. I do too.鈥�