Local award-winning environmental writer Arno Kopecky faced a dilemma you may recognize: how to reconcile two seemingly antagonistic ways of viewing our world. One view sees the earth, and us, as doomed due to out-of-control climate change; the other notes the progress we humans have made, and continue to make, to improve life on all sorts of fronts. And so he wrote a book to explore the conflicting points of view. On September 8 he’ll tell us what he found out.