From the Wikipedia page on "Meliorism":

Meliorism (Latin melior, better) is the idea that progress is a real concept and that humans can interfere with natural processes in order to improve the world. ...

... meliorism stands in the middle between optimism and pessimism and treats the salvation of the world as a probability rather than a certainty or impossibility ...

... all three statements are true at the same time: "The world is much better. The world is awful. The world can be much better." ...

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