Letters from the Future

<p><strong>The future is not what it used to be...</strong><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Change the story redefine progress become a good ancestor! </strong>New Brunswickers are hungry for hopeful stories of the future to counter the stereotype of hard times in the Maritimes. <strong><em>Letters from the Future</em></strong> presents a sample of these hopeful stories written by people who care deeply about New Brunswick. </p><p>The authors envision advances in climate change action food security sustainable livelihoods forest restoration municipal planning business development social justice human rights and health care-to mention only a few of the thirty-seven stories that weave their way through this book along with <strong>Ian Smith's delightful illustrations</strong>. </p><p><strong><em>Letters from the Future</em></strong> is a book of <strong><em>speculative nonfiction</em></strong>. The authors imagine the kind of changes that redefine progress and the accomplishments that flow from these changes but they are writing about the real world not a fictional world.</p><p><strong><em>...the study of the future is more than an intellectual curiosity; it is essential to the survival of humankind itself</em>.</strong> (Kenneth Boulding)</p><p>This is the study that <strong><em>Letters from the Future</em></strong> invites readers to take up as we do everything we can to create the better world we know is possible.</p>