I got through about the first paragraph. > If Albert Einstein were alive today, he might well say that we are living through an age of boundless chance. Is th

I got through about the first paragraph. > If Albert Einstein were alive today, he might well say that we are living through an age of boundless chance. Is this what constructive journalism is? Inventing quotes? > After all, he was said to have uttered, ‘In the midst of every crisis, lies great opportunity’, and there seems to be no end to crises at the moment. Okay, the fictitious attribution is based on an apocryphal one? Also, opportunity isn't the same thing as chance - please be careful with your thesaurus. > The coronavirus pandemic, accelerating and intensifying climate change, debilitating cyberattacks, doubts about the health of democracy. Technical solutions exist for each of these problems, and in fact the health of democracy has never been stronger (in societies with representative governments): the people elect not to pay upfront for these solutions, and instead bear the piecemeal cost of leaving the problems unaddressed. > Watching the news or scanning the headlines online often feels like looking into the abyss — and this feeling makes many people turn away. I don't want or need constant exposure to the news - and you can't seriously be claiming news exposure is correlated with 'positive' choices. > And yet, it we trust Einstein (and he was definitely a smart guy!), the same situation can offer very different takeaways. Times of great challenge hold the potential for positive change. Ah, so you are. Hard to argue against, at least long as we trust the words you've stuffed into Einstein's mouth.