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Nope, we’re not going to hell in a handcart

Nope, we’re not going to hell in a handcart

By Peter Kerr for sticK

(sticK - 12 April 2012 ) The refreshingly upbeat Mark Stevenson breezed through Wellington just before Easter, giving his take on why the world’s NOT going to hell in a handcart.

The author of ‘An optimist’s tour of the future’, Stevenson’s been accused by some of having rose tinted glasses.

“But we should have an unashamed optimism about the future,” says the British-based writer, comic and scientist

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