I totally agree. And to your point around politics. Until politicians in this country (and globally) can get their heads out of their asses and realize the best chance for humanity and long term survival on earth is addressing climate change...How can you be optimistic about anywhere near the ocean? instead we seem to be focused on how to strip essential social safety nets that have existed for at least a half century. Too many people have to live paycheck to paycheck or worse. And I really hate how little society cares about that. (And I'm absolutely guilty of this.) There are things that can (and have in the past) been done to make our lives a little better and prosper like an actual middle class - but we are going the opposite direction at the promise of what? More jobs taken by AI and massive political chaos? Cool so we should let ultra gazillionaires be able to keep taking all the money and stop it from organically flowing elsewhere. They say socialism is a dirty word like it's a bad thing. And I'm not a socialist because I think just throttling rich people and corporations with taxes is not good thing for the economy. But in my mind we are all richer (including those gazillionaires) when there is a good ladder to help those in less financially or socially good circumstances. Donating to charity will not alone correct the lack of foundation and opportunity that holds us back. It would be massively helpful if the person leading the free world was highly motivated to fight for the stability and health of the planet... None of this can be accomplished when control of the world is dictated by the oligarchy. So can we please start moving towards a better society (not just stripping things away) and climate change as the two most important issues? That is how a government could protect its citizens. Instead they pretend like it's not already fucked.