In 2023, we have many opportunities to build a better future

The coming year will be a turning point for the Amazon rainforest, artificial intelligence and even our diets. Let’s choose a more hopeful direction for humanity

EVERY year feels like a new beginning, but, as we explore in this issue, many events set for 2023 feel like opportunities for humanity to choose a more hopeful future.

Even the first day of the year will see a key turning point, with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva taking office as president of Brazil. He replaces Jair Bolsonaro, who, for the past four years, has overseen destruction of the Amazon rainforest at a pace not seen in decades. Lula has promised to halt and reverse this devastation, and political leaders elsewhere increasingly understand the need to preserve trees (see …