Because so many important news stories are teetering on the brink, I decided to write a different kind of "brief" today.

Here, we review a few difficult situations - in war, in climate change, in electoral politics - to come to the deeper danger in news cycles like these:

Giving over to the politics of fatalism. Allowing oneself to believe that everything getting worse is inevitable.

We can't change world events - but we can better fortify ourselves for local action.

https://onlysky.media/mclark/resisting-the-politics-of-fatalism/