Introducing What Could Go Right?

On the Jordan Harbinger Show, host Jordan Harbinger introduces listeners to a new podcast called What Could Go Right? from the Progress Network. The episode is built around a simple, provocative premise: the public conversation is dominated by fear, outrage, and predictions of collapse, but many of those predictions have simply not come true. The show argues that we are missing a crucial part of the story by not asking the opposite question—what could go right?—and that this blind spot distorts our understanding of the world.

Why the Experts Were Wrong

The central argument of What Could Go Right? is that the conventional wisdom about global decline is often wrong. Co-host Zachary Caravel, reflecting on a history of doomsday prognostications—including his own—realized that "actually none of them had come to pass." This observation is the show's starting point. Rather than celebrating naively, the hosts want to understand why the dire predictions failed and what actually happened instead.