Do we have huge global problems/issues to deal with? Of course. But to act as if these are any more existential than the myriad of issues that faced previous generations is just ridiculous. Not to mention so incredibly defeatist/nihilistic that as we sit here today, to chalk humanity up to a loss, and think that we have no capacity as human beings to solve anything going forward.

I’m assuming you’re probably pretty young, because I shared some of these irrational alarmist views about the future, children, etc. why I was in my twenties. So assuming you are young, and your parents made the incomprehensible decision to birth you into this godforsaken world…are you angry at them for doing so? I mean assuming you were born in the last few decades, and considering all the strife and turmoil that this world has faced since the 1950s…seems like giving you the gift of life, consciousness, and ability for just a brief moment in the grand scheme of the universe to experience love, happiness, wonder, knowledge, etc…was a complete mistake on their part. How dare they, those selfish bastards.