For this to happen, conservationists will have to jettison their idealized notions of nature, parks and wilderness — ideas that have never been supported by good conservation science — and forge a more optimistic, human-friendly vision.
The viewer may have been slow to realize, for instance, that the optimistic human adventurer William Jimmi Simpsonn) was not a contemporary of the not-quite-nihilistic black hat played by Ed Harris.
Since cavemen began swapping wooden clubs thousands of years ago, the eternally optimistic human race has been trading under the delusion that, in aggregate, it can make itself wealthier by outsmarting the market as a whole.
From the "black" faces in the crowd at Grant Park who stood muted with awe to the "white" faces who jubilantly glowed with the affirmation of joint compassion and responsibility - Americans overwhelmingly mandated a change from divisive, hateful politics to inclusive and optimistic human relations in this the 21st century.
He has described VR, by contrast, as "the first medium to come along that doesn't narrow the human spirit"."You Are Not A Gadget" is a pessimistic book, but Mr Lanier argues that it is optimistic about humans.
I'm more optimistic: If humans created him, they can change him too.
In the video interview below, Rowland said he was not optimistic about humans doing the right thing on climate change, but that he never gave up hope.
"I'm quite optimistic about human nature," he said.
We will be a little too optimistic about human advancement.
Because study subjects are in such short supply, Dr. Paulman is not optimistic that human pseudocyesis will ever be completely scientifically understood.
