Climate Change: Making the Most of Failure

"Though it surely happens in sports at all levels, there’s one phenomenon that’s particularly common in youth sports: A game in which you’re so outmatched, so fundamentally inferior to your opponent that the outcome, minus Divine or supernatural intervention, is essentially guaranteed."

"You’re going to lose."

"I’ve been there. Perhaps you have as well. In the moment, particularly through the eyes of a child, there remains a palpable sense of denial. Maybe, just maybe we’ll rally and against all odds, topple the mighty."

"It’s a powerful elixir but the loss still comes."

Scott Doyon discusses climate change in this context. "Mother Nature’s gonna put the beat down on us, but we will not submit. We can still emerge as better, more successful players if we reconsider what it is that constitutes a win.”