Rise of the climate optimists, pushing back against gloom
There’s a sense of calmness in rural Iowa. Its beauty isn’t lost on Marcy Franck.
But the beautiful vastness of corn and soybean fields across the horizon isn’t what sticks with Ms. Franck each time she pays a visit to her parents-in-law in the Midwest. Rather, it’s the wind turbines she sees in the distance. It’s the thought of how the machines’ gently rotating blades generate clean energy destined to travel across the region, and into peoples’ lives.
It’s the fact of progress in innovation.
“They’re an emblem of hope and our future,” Ms. Franck says.
Ms. Franck fashions herself newsletter from the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
