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“#Don’t give up on hope. The world needs it.<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Refugees and migrants make their way to the Greek island of Lesbos in March (Aris Messinis\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

For many people around the globe, hope\u2014that \u201cthing with feathers\u201d Emily Dickinson found perched within the human soul\u2014may be as everlasting as the poet declares, but it has clearly seen better days. In a world scarred by a pandemic inexorably consuming lives and livelihoods, ongoing racial and Indigenous injustice, 25 million refugees adrift from their homes, and escalating climate change, despair can be a force as powerful as a fifth horseman of the apocalypse. \u201cMany of us have come to regard hope with disdain,\u201d writes environmentalist Thomas Homer-Dixon, one of the most prominent public intellectuals in Canada, in his new book Commanding Hope<\/em>, \u201ca state of mind that\u2019s naive and irresolute at best, delusional at worst.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an understandable reaction to the climate crisis and what may accompany it, he believes. The tides that are rising in the contemporary world\u2014resistance to science<\/a>, deteriorating climate, increasing authoritarianism and inequality, entrenched economic and political interests, the ongoing sixth great extinction of life on Earth and, yes, pandemics\u2014point to \u201cimminent catastrophe,\u201d Homer-Dixon says in an interview, \u201cprobably by 2045 and possibly within a decade.\u201d It is, Commanding Hope<\/em> flatly states, \u201cplausibly too late\u201d to expect human civilization in the later 21st century to be \u201cjust, peaceful and prosperous.\u201d<\/p>\n

Small wonder then that climate despair has grown as fast as emissions and temperatures the last few years. As Ren\u00e9e Lertzman, author of the 2015 book Environmental Melancholia<\/em>, explains it, more and more people are coming to understand climate change as a fast-app<\/a>roaching and deadly likelihood, while almost simultaneously realizing very little is being done about it. Some have responded viscerally. In a November 2018 TED Talk, teenaged Swedish activist Greta Thunberg described how at the age of 11, three years after first learning about climate change, she fell into a deep depression. \u201cI stopped talking. I stopped eating,\u201d she revealed. \u201cIn two months, I lost about 10 kilos [22 lb.] of weight.\u201d
\n\"\"Others have moved beyond climate despair into \u201cclimate nihilism,\u201d says historian Stuart Parker, a former leader of the B.C. Green Party, by which he means hope or despair don\u2019t enter the equation at all. \u201cPeople literally believe nothing about the climate crisis; they simply excise it from their consciousness so that there\u2019s no way that it actually affects their decision-making.\u201d And some, deep in a Dantesque inferno, have not averted their eyes but have abandoned all hope for a human species they believe to be the organic equivalent of a failed state: we made this mess, blithely refuse to acknowledge it and will perish from it.<\/p>\n

In the face of the climate crisis, many have gone so far as to give up the next generation, says Homer-Dixon, research chair in the faculty of environment at the University of Waterloo in Ontario and director of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University in British Columbia. He notes the decision \u201camong many young women to not have children because of the seriousness of the situation.\u201d Hope and children are so inextricably tied together in human consciousness\u2014think Christmas\u2014that the formation of BirthStrike in Britain felt both news<\/a>worthy and inevitable in 2018. The loosely organized group quickly amassed more than 300 members worldwide who have forsworn offspring because of the disaster they see on the horizon. Meanwhile, in a 2019 poll of more than 1,000 Americans aged 18 to 29, when respondents were asked if climate change \u201cshould be a factor in a couple\u2019s decision about whether to have children,\u201d 38 per cent agreed. \u201cI completely understand it on an individual basis,\u201d says Homer-Dixon, \u201cbut if people stop having kids, they dramatically reduce their incentive to care about the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

It may come as a surprise then to learn that Homer-Dixon himself is not pessimistic about hope. Commanding Hope<\/em> is his passionate\u2014and evidence-backed\u2014case for it. But the hope Homer-Dixon is proclaiming is one most of us wouldn\u2019t recognize. It\u2019s not a hope humanity can reasonably hold right now about the near-term future\u2014for the environmentalist, that\u2019s vanishingly small\u2014nor the false hope offered by those whom Homer-Dixon calls \u201ctechno-optimists.\u201d They can rightly cite a steady improvement in significant human benchmarks\u2014from longer lives to the absence of war between major nations to educating girls\u2014to back their faith that human ingenuity will preserve the life we now live. But those positive metrics<\/em> will necessarily be overwhelmed by the negative trends<\/em>, Homer-Dixon believes, since both are rooted in humanity\u2019s massive, unsustainable fossil-fuel exploitation. Techno-optimism is a \u201cbeguiling\u201d false hope, \u201cwhich makes me even angrier [than no hope] because it leads people astray,\u201d he says. \u201cIt tells them they don\u2019t really have to worry about climate change much\u2014which is, of course, what people desperately want to hear.\u201d<\/p>\n

Homer-Dixon\u2019s hope is not optimism, but rather the kind of hope brought to mind by his book\u2019s arresting title, one that must be ordered up from within us\u2014with no regard to how despairing we are, and long before we have tangible reasons for optimism\u2014and then set to rule our actions. That\u2019s the radical hope Homer-Dixon believes humanity needs, the only road that can see us through. \u201cWe are a misguided species, not a failed one,\u201d he says, \u201cand I don\u2019t think our story is finished yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Homer-Dixon is not alone today in holding hope up to the light and weighing anew its purpose and value in a tragic world, particularly in the context of a coronavirus pandemic that Cindy Blackstock, Canada\u2019s leading advocate for the rights of Indigenous children, describes as having set people to \u201crecalibrating what they think is important in life.\u201d That recalibration very much includes hope itself, as Joe Biden, the Democratic Party\u2019s nominee for U.S. president implicitly acknowledged in his acceptance speech: \u201cLook, I understand it\u2019s hard to have hope right now.\u201d That was a sentiment echoed by Vogue <\/em>magazine, when it announced it was turning over the August and September issues of all 26 of its global editions to the celebration of hope, something currently \u201chard to find.\u201d<\/p>\n

That is why the magazine sought to discover hope in the stories of \u201cinspiring individuals working tirelessly to build a brighter, better future for everyone.\u201d For activists like Blackstock, what flutters in our chests, in her words, is the only way \u201cwhat never gets done, ever gets done.\u201d Blackstock should know: she launched her court case against the Canadian government for denying services to First Nations children back in 2007. That\u2019s \u201c14 years of litigation and 11 non-compliance orders [against Ottawa],\u201d she says, \u201ctime we\u2019ve used as an opportunity to educate and engage Canadians.\u201d And, it goes unsaid, a length of time that required deep reservoirs of hope to endure. But hope is a quality that \u201cdoesn\u2019t turn on probability assessments,\u201d as Cambridge University philosopher Sandy Grant puts it. \u201cIf anything, hope goes against the evidence, arising in spite of all that has gone before.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hope is so central to the human condition, so foundational to our bodies, minds and souls, that it has always drawn the attention of philosophers, theologians and scientists. Hope is biological. The same brain areas, the rostral anterior cingulate and amygdala, light up in neuroscientists\u2019 scans whether we are longing for a child\u2019s recovery or merely crossing our fingers it won\u2019t rain on tomorrow\u2019s picnic. Hope is psychological. The influential branch of positive psychology known as hope theory, primarily based on the late 20th-century work of American psychologist Charles Snyder, emphasizes hope as a state of doing<\/em>, a goal-oriented cast of mind that leads people out of their present pain and anxiety to a better situation. The theory itself is goal-oriented: among the evidence for hope\u2019s benefits proponents frequently cite, according to the website PositivePsychology.com, is that \u201chigh-hope college students were more likely to graduate than their low-hope counterparts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hope is spiritual. Traditional Christian theology tended to focus on it as a state of being<\/em>, encapsulated in what the Anglican Book of Common Prayer<\/em> called the \u201csure and certain hope of the resurrection\u201d to come. Christopher Brittain, dean of divinity at Trinity College at the University of Toronto, understands the technical distinction between doing and being, but considers it essentially meaningless. \u201cIf you\u2019re going to continue to be able to act with hope, you\u2019re going to have to become a person who has hope as part of their being.\u201d For Brittain, hope does arise from evidence, from witnessing the everyday acts of our neighbours during the pandemic. Not their heroism, he says\u2014despite the courage exhibited by front-line workers whether in health care or in stocking grocery shelves\u2014but their human decency, their display of the same instinct that motivated Dr. Rieux in Albert Camus\u2019s classic novel The Plague<\/em>. \u201cTheirs are the actions that have shown me all the kinds of relationships I\u2019m embedded in,\u201d Brittain says, describing vital connections normally invisible to us all, \u201cand provide the reasons to trust that web.\u201d<\/p>\n

Philosophers, partly in reaction to religious believers\u2019 certainty that divine authority will someday set all things right, have often leaned toward skepticism about hope. Arthur Schopenhauer, the 19th-century German philosopher usually considered the gloomiest of his lot, thought that hope \u201cderanges the intellect,\u201d leading us to confuse what we want and what\u2019s liable to occur. The contemporary Buddhist philosopher Thich Nhat Hanh goes further, detecting something tragic in hope, an illusion of what might be that makes us miss the reality and potential beauty of the present moment. But much of the Western tradition disagrees with the skeptics, and Cambridge philosopher Grant believes such thinking misses hope\u2019s true active nature. As long as the hoped-for outcome, be it as large as wringing racism out of social<\/a> and legal systems, is possible, so too are \u201clives that are both enjoyable and open to change.\u201d<\/p>\n

The hope humans think about, and have traditionally argued about, is almost always personal, swirling around themselves and their loved ones. That kind of hope does spring eternal, and is the same hope that sees weddings celebrated and newborns welcomed in times of war and famine, gets struggling people out of bed in the morning and infuses self-help books. Set a goal (a better job, sobriety), find a workable pathway to it (school, therapy) and continue to strive. Millions of people regularly embark on that journey, and often succeed, making for a world that is better and more hope-filled in individual terms, although collective progress lags behind.<\/p>\n

Even when hope is nurtured and applied on a basis as wide as an entire nation reeling from catastrophe, it often retains its individual focus. Andrew Furey, a St. John\u2019s, N.L., orthopaedic surgeon, founder of the volunteer medical relief organization Team Broken Earth\u2014and, since Aug. 3, premier of Newfoundland and Labrador\u2014also has a new book. In it, he traces the evolution of Broken Earth from its birth in the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake of 2010 and, like Homer-Dixon, references in his title the virtue that makes all else possible: Hope in the Balance<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Asked what he meant to convey by the title, Furey replies, \u201cWhen I showed up in Haiti after the earthquake, so many things were in the balance. You could see all the destruction and disparity, and the balance to all the negativity was, frankly, one little girl. I\u2019ll never forget her.\u201d She was \u201cyoung enough to be playing with dolls,\u201d recalls Furey, who at the time was the father of two young daughters, but she had accompanied her grandfather to the partially collapsed hospital. After an operation to repair the man\u2019s broken hip, the surgeon told the girl he\u2019d be okay, and \u201cshe shook my hand with the maturity of someone 20, 30 years older and I could see in her face an optimism and a hope.\u201d That\u2019s what tipped the balance for Furey. From then on, he says, \u201cwe all took bites of the hope I saw in her, and really, it was from that interaction that Broken Earth grew.\u201d<\/p>\n

But there is little akin to what galvanized Furey in the wake of the Haitian earthquake for those who hope to mitigate an ongoing man-made disaster, one of which Canadian writer Steven Heighton calls a \u201ctragedy of intractables.\u201d In 2015, in a spur-of-the-moment decision, Heighton went to the Greek island of Lesbos to put his rudimentary Greek, his mother\u2019s native tongue, to work as a volunteer helping to cope with the tide of Syrian refugees fleeing to Europe. One of his forthcoming books, Reaching Mithymna<\/em>, is an eloquent depiction of refugees, volunteers and a seemingly endless crisis; the other, The Virtues of Disillusionment<\/em>, speaks to lessons learned. In what is now \u201cthe most densely populated human settlement in the world,\u201d writes Heighton in an email exchange about his experiences, over 20,000 refugees remain in a single, small camp on Lesbos, all of them fading from the global public eye through viewer fatigue, even before the coronavirus pandemic completed that process.<\/p>\n

Yet the three volunteers to whom Reaching Mithymna<\/em> is dedicated, Omar, Clara and Tracey, \u201care still there in Greece,\u201d and are among the best at combining \u201cthe energy and resolve of optimists with the anxiety of pessimists.\u201d That\u2019s the \u201cspace you have to inhabit,\u201d says Heighton, sounding much like Homer-Dixon, a place poised \u201cbetween hope and hopelessness, the one place where useful, urgent action is possible.\u201d What he told himself then and now, he says, is \u201cwhile a lone aid worker or volunteer\u2019s efforts can\u2019t affect the fundamentals of a global crisis, they\u2019ll make a real difference to whatever people they manage to assist, on landing beaches, in paramedical tents, in transit camps.\u201d Hope can paralyze or distract, Heighton adds, and \u201chope without action is far worse than action without hope.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A protester unfurls wings during a Black Lives Matter march on June 14 in New York City (Michael Noble Jr.\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In the one crisis COVID-19 has not entirely driven from the headlines\u2014the latest moment in the Western world\u2019s four-century-long history of anti-Black racism (centred in, but not restricted to, the United States)\u2014the rise and fall of hope has always played a significant role. In a late July interview with Vox<\/em>, Harvard professor Cornel West, one of his country\u2019s most prominent Black intellectuals, draws a sharp distinction between optimism and hope. \u201cOptimism for me has never been an option. Because there\u2019s too much suffering in the world. Think of all the African bones and bodies at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean . . . but hope is something else, because hope is not spectatorial. It\u2019s participatory. Hope is a verb as much as a virtue. Hope is as much a consequence of your action as it is a source of your action.\u201d Hope is also opportunistic, because crisis means possibility, West continued, the pandemic as much as George Floyd\u2019s death. \u201cWhen the pandemic hit, you began to see the ugliness [of life in America]. But you also see resilience. People in the streets. People waking up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sandy Hudson, the founder of Black Lives Matter Toronto, agrees, at least to a point. \u201cWhen George Floyd was killed, I spent two days on a couch with a cousin of mine, just trying to speak to our feelings. I was profoundly sad and in despair,\u201d she says over the phone from Los Angeles where she\u2019s attending law school. \u201cAnd then I got to work.\u201d The hope for change spawned in crisis is more a strategic opportunity for Hudson than a real moral awareness. Her inspiration and hopes \u201coften feel impossible to a number of people I speak to,\u201d she says, but they derive from her reading of history. \u201cThere were things thought impossible in the 1800s and the 1960s that people brought to life.\u201d It\u2019s important to seize the moment, says Hudson, and 2020 is one of those, but the hope\u2014a radical commitment unrelated to pragmatic considerations\u2014must come first.<\/p>\n

All those experiences and thoughts intertwine in intricate ways. Cornel West\u2019s \u201chope is a verb\u201d is echoed, in those same words, by Cindy Blackstock; Sandy Hudson and Sandy Grant feel that hope precedes hopeful action; Furey and Heighton speak of actions taken before hope that created moments that inspired hope. All of them would agree in the end with Brittain that hope demands both being and doing, and their thoughts and attitudes connect them too with Thomas Homer-Dixon\u2019s concept of hope.<\/p>\n

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But climate activists consider their situation more dire than any other. The despair sparked by the planet\u2019s plunging trend lines has no fast-acting antidote such as the immediate and electrifying feedback Furey\u2019s work in Haiti brought him. And climate change\u2019s scale, diffuse causes and multitude of agents don\u2019t allow the possibility of helping one person at a time in the satisfying way that Heighton and his fellow volunteers could. Its rapid worsening doesn\u2019t even offer the ability to plot hope against a long, long arc of history slowly bending toward justice that anti-racism activists can embrace.<\/p>\n

Those realizations have taken Homer-Dixon into a deep contemplation of the functioning of hope. The hope that has emerged for him takes honesty as its fundamental principle, despite Homer-Dixon\u2019s belief there is risk to his cause in that approach. \u201cAn honest appraisal can produce hopelessness, especially in regards to climate change,\u201d he says. \u201cWe hate that powerless feeling.\u201d But the risk is worth its possible reward, Stuart Parker agrees. Soft-pedalling mobilizes no one, the historian says, and \u201cthe only way to frame the climate issue is \u2018We have to, and we are, converting to a new moral order\u2014this will be how we share the losses and make the sacrifices.\u2019 That\u2019s what mobilizes people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Homer-Dixon doesn\u2019t shy away from bluntness in his appraisal. \u201cGiven fundamental things like the laws of thermodynamics,\u201d he says dryly, \u201cit\u2019s going to be pretty hard to escape [the reality of] nine to 10 billion people on the planet, most of them in the next 30 years, with the planet\u2019s population weight moving from East Asia to Africa and South Asia, and a warming of at least two degrees. That will bring a metre rise in sea level and<\/em> possibly make those heavily populated areas too hot for humans.\u201d Against such a background, with other \u201cmultiple stresses\u201d\u2014including the nuclear weapons we barely think about any longer\u2014the social and political upheaval will be severe, and the possibility of \u201csavage violence\u201d very real. We need to know what\u2019s coming \u201cwithout lying to ourselves,\u201d Homer-Dixon says, if we are going to properly teach our children they are liable to inherit a world of loss, and to muster what it takes to preserve what we can. And to keep climate change, as Vice <\/em>writer Mike Pearl sardonically put it, \u201cat hell level rather than mega-super hell.\u201d<\/p>\n

To clarify the trend lines and the probabilities, Homer-Dixon says, is to make real the dangers\u2014but also the possibilities of avoiding them. It demolishes false hope but also strikes at despair. Like COVID-19 modelling, climate change likelihoods carry a premise of \u201cif current trends continue,\u201d and the very act of predicting affects those trends. The natural systems that rule the world are so complex it\u2019s impossible to be exactly sure of the outcomes of meddling with them. And in human systems, people\u2019s attitudes can change and crystalize into new forms with surprising speed. \u201cAs a historian, that\u2019s my main source of faith,\u201d says Parker cheerfully. \u201cI know how weird things are and how weird they\u2019ve always been. Human beings: you never quite know what they\u2019re going to get up to next.\u201d<\/p>\n

The unexpected brings hope as much as despair. \u201cIf somebody had told me in 2014 that a girl, 15 years old and on the spectrum, would sit outside the parliament of Sweden with a backpack and a little sign and thereby galvanize a global youth movement against climate change, I would have said that\u2019s ridiculous,\u201d says Homer-Dixon. \u201cYet, especially with youth, there are always things in the [so-called] adjacent possible\u2014ignored, unseen, just sitting there\u2014that may lead in much more positive directions.\u201d When Homer-Dixon began speaking to young people about the ideas in his book, not sparing any details\u2014\u201cthey\u2019d ask me about our chances for a prosperous, humane civilization two centuries from now, and I\u2019d reply \u201820 per cent\u2019 \u201d\u2014he was uncertain what to expect. But they would respond to his frankness more called-to-arms than defeated, \u201ccoming up afterwards and saying, \u2018Yeah, 20 per cent? Okay, we\u2019ll shoot for 20 per cent.\u2019 That increases the probability by itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Climate activists (from left) Luisa Neubauer, Thunberg, Adelaide Charlier, Anuna De Wever (Clemens Bilan\/EPA\/CP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In addition to being honest, hope needs to be muscular, because a better future has real enemies. \u201cWe\u2019re looking at the probability of some kind of violent discontinuity here,\u201d says Homer-Dixon, from established interests that will threaten violence to stop necessary socio-economic change, \u201cand we have to think of ways to deal with that, but not like them<\/em>.<\/em>\u201d Or, as Blackstock expresses it: \u201cDon\u2019t stand for human rights while you violate human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n

And hope must be astute, especially in its search for potential allies. They can only be found in significant numbers among those Homer-Dixon no longer calls climate change deniers, but contrarians. Like Brittain, he starts from the premise that \u201ceverybody has a presumption of decency, of reasonableness.\u201d The contrarians \u201care struggling with the same basic fears and existential despair that all of us are, and they solve that in their own particular way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Honest, muscular and astute are necessary elements of a robust, even commanding, hope, but what is the object of this hope? The short answer is to change hearts and minds, and more the former than the latter. Much of Commanding Hope<\/em> concentrates on the formation of world views and how to influence them in positive ways. Human decision-making is at least as \u201chot\u201d\u2014that is, emotion-ruled\u2014as \u201ccold\u201d rational calculation. Our emotionally charged world views are the lenses through which we interpret reality and find meaning in our lives. They dictate the \u201chero\u201d stories we tell ourselves about the right way to navigate the world, and dictate, too, our capacity to adapt to change. And since they change more quickly than the institutions and technology<\/a> that have grown up to support them, \u201cworld views are where we break into the circle,\u201d Homer-Dixon says.<\/p>\n

That means among today\u2019s opponents. There is no progress for activists of any strip<\/a>e who speak only to the converted, as climate activists too often do. \u201cBut you have to be talking to the people who like to build stuff too, those who just wake up in the morning and think, \u2018Wow, life is exciting. What am I going to do today to make some money?\u2019 \u201d says Homer-Dixon. \u201cThat\u2019s where a lot of these contrarians are coming from, because we\u2019re killing their hero stories. If we want to encourage folks with exuberant temperaments\u2014including open-minded capitalists\u2014to create hero stories in which they see themselves inventing, exploring and experimenting with ways to solve the world\u2019s critical problems, then our vision must provide opportunities for personal agency to flourish.\u201d<\/p>\n

What humanity will decide to do is necessarily still unclear in specifics, Homer-Dixon readily admits. His point is he cannot know. When the climate firestorm erupts, \u201cit will affect everyone on earth, so there will be brand-new attitudes and brand-new ideas.\u201d Where hope will do its work is in ensuring the attitudes, and thereby the ideas that are employed to tackle the challenge, are \u201cpowerful and humane.\u201d<\/p>\n

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So these then are the building blocks of hope that Homer-Dixon thinks humanity needs: brutal honesty about what is coming, an astute recognition of possible friends and certain opponents, and an acknowledgment of the role of uncertainty in human affairs. Its aim is to create among a critical mass of the planetary population what Christopher Brittain calls \u201ca readiness to take new steps, even though we don\u2019t quite know where they will take us, because the alternatives aren\u2019t acceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like all those with an uphill cause to advance, Homer-Dixon has essentially put his hope in hope itself. Whether that will lead him and the rest of humanity to where he thinks we have to go is, as ever, uncertain. There will be crises that shatter complacency and apathy alike\u2014the pandemic has proven that\u2014so there will be chances to change course. The uncertainty itself is the hope, although the opportunities can be narrow indeed. Joe Biden\u2019s call for hope at his party\u2019s convention, which borrowed the words of Irish poet Seamus Heaney, has deep roots in his country\u2019s political rhetoric, a traditional call for Americans to summon the better angels of their nature and put the U.S. back to rights by using the attitudes, tools and institutions it already possesses.<\/p>\n

But the literary source Biden quoted, the most famous lines from The Cure at Troy<\/em>\u2014Heaney\u2019s reworking of an ancient Greek tragedy\u2014have a far more stark view: \u201cHistory says, Don\u2019t hope \/ On this side of the grave \/ But then, once in a lifetime \/ The longed-for tidal wave \/ Of justice can rise up \/ And hope and history rhyme.\u201d The Nobel laureate goes on, in words uncited by Biden, to write: \u201cSo hope for a great sea-change \/ On the far side of revenge \/ Believe that a further shore \/ Is reachable from here \/ Believe in miracles \/ And cures and healing wells.\u201d<\/p>\n

Once in a lifetime? A 20 per cent chance? That\u2019s radical hope.<\/p>\n\n

This article appears in print in the October 2020 issue of<\/em> Maclean\u2019s magazine with the headline, \u201cHave a little hope.\u201d Subscribe to the monthly print magazine here<\/a>.<\/em>
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