Social innovators regularly reframe massive social issues as a series of small, solvable problems.
These are solvable problems if people of good faith came together and were willing to compromise.
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There are those of us who see it in terms of solvable problems.
These Grand Challenges for Development are definable, quantifiable goals that address some of the largest solvable problems poor countries currently face.
These are solvable problems, but it does require us just getting out of the short-term and, frankly, selfish approach that sometimes politics breeds.
But, and here is the limit to such blue-sky optimism, this does not mean that it will be: solvable problems are not always solved.
But the one last thought I want to leave you with is a sense of optimism about how solvable our problems are.
The drift, as sceptics will have detected, is back towards the Enlightenment optimism derided earlier: that all problems are solvable.
But not serious because those countries' problems look solvable, given a fair dose of political will, and because their economies are small enough to have little impact on the rest of the world.
The good new is, is that our problems are imminently solvable and does not necessarily fall into the classic ideological divisions between left and right, conservative, liberal, but are just smart things to do to respond to a historic challenge that we face as a country.
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So I'm here to tell you that the problems we face today are very solvable.
He took to studying philosophy, and particularly enjoyed logic problems for the way they turned messy questions of free will into technical, solvable puzzles.
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