How to Evolve

How to Evolve

Healing Personal Wounds: Your Essential Role in Humanity's Future

The Future of Humanity Institute has closed. Report here for your new assignment

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Ros Barber
May 03, 2024
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The Future of Humanity Institute has closed. To be honest I didn’t know it existed. Then Utopian Substacker Elle Griffin made a list of places relevant to her hopeful, forward-thinking subscribers. I googled it and got the news.

Four five-star reviews and closed? Well yes, four. Not four thousand.

What happened, I can only speculate. Not because I couldn’t research it if I wanted to (actually I couldn’t resist and it may be a bit interesting), but because the Institute’s closure is only a cheeky bouncing-off point for this post. Let’s pretend we know nothing. The Future of Humanity Institute, farewell. Funding dried up? Watched too much news, utterly gave up on humanity and went to the pub? I don’t blame you.

Happily, though the Institute is closed, Humanity still has a Future.

Oh yes, it does.

We are not at the panto (much as I love that venerable British tradition) so I’m not going to bat this back and forth. But I would like to persuade you that we do indeed have future and that you, yes you, littl…

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