![]() In other words, religion is used to justify policy solutions, but it does not provide them. ![]() Leaders typically look for answers in modern sources-such as reports and case studies-and then they may find a passage from a religious text that can be interpreted to explain the decision. Policy problems: Religion offers policy solutions that apply to ancient contexts, which doesn’t help to solve modern policy problems such as how governments should prevent climate change to begin with.While priests used to pray for rain and shamans tried to heal the sick, science and technology offer far more effective solutions. Technical problems: Modern science has replaced religion as the authority for technical problems, such as how African farmers should deal with droughts caused by climate change. ![]()
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![]() ![]() And not only that: Abby's life changes every time her parallel self makes a new choice. With the help of Caitlin, her science-savvy BFF, Abby discovers that this new reality is the result of a cosmic collision of parallel universes that has Abby living an alternate version of her life. Overnight, it's as if her past has been rewritten. The next morning, she's in a dorm room at Yale, with no memory of how she got there. Now, on the eve of her eighteenth birthday, Abby is stuck on a Hollywood movie set, miles from where she wants to be, wishing she could rewind her life. ![]() But one tiny choice-taking a drama class her senior year of high school-changed all that. She'd go to Northwestern, major in journalism, and land a job at a national newspaper, all before she turned twenty-two. Parallel by Lauren MillerĪbby Barnes had a plan. 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