And let's just get together with experts in the different elements at stake– the market and political structures that we're going to try to transform, but also the nitty-gritty of deepwater exploration.
As Vanessa Brown, a senior lecturer in design and visual culture at Nottingham Trent University, recently told Newsweek: "There must be an element of personal dignity at stake for a model forced to traverse the room in something that potentially makes them feel ridiculous" – so if you have to carry a child's lunchbox down the catwalk, smiling will take the edge off.
So as well as financial considerations in both countries, there is an element of national pride at stake, our correspondent says - if Britain decides to cut aid to India, Delhi may say it does not want the money anyway.
"One of the things we talk about in the writers' room is that these people love each other, and we always throw out stories that have an element of 'Our friendship is at stake!'" co-creator and executive producer Bill Lawrence said last week in an interview after a Los Angeles event promoting the show.
The ideas about radio journalism that Glass taught them, they said, included having something at stake, having an element of surprise, having a larger story and smaller anecdotes that support it, and having moments of authentic emotion.
Similarly, adverse effects have been described for education [ 7, 13], suggesting that more upstream elements determining the quality of life are at stake in oil-driven development.
"It is knowing what's at stake and knowing the different elements of it, I believe, that puts me in a different position".
It was what was at stake at Canossa and Canterbury, and it remains a necessary element of any plausible account of religious freedom.
Dobozy laces the narratives with elements of the fantastical but falls victim to the temptation to offer too much explanation about what's at stake.
"Ubik," from 1969, also repeats elements from "Palmer Eldritch" and "Counter-Clock World," an earlier Dick novel, and it feels as if even less is at stake.
