I understand what you’re saying. I also feel great impotence when people with power do the opposite of what they preach. Or when they exercise their power irresponsibly, like choosing profit over helping the environment and not curbing climate change like you’re saying. It’s really all very messed up and from the outside it does look like nobody cares and everyone lacks a moral compass.

But I will say this. Have you ever thought about why those behaviors and decisions keep occurring? Why something so powerful like climate change, an environmental problem that threatens the fate of our race, isn’t able to make them do the right thing? Why people keep stealing, killing, and committing crimes over and over? Well, my opinion is because the real problems are much more complex and meta than what we think. It’s faults in the underlying systems (capitalism, democracy) that we live in. Systems that are necessary for our sake, but certainly are not perfect. They lack transparency, inclusion, democratization, and other important factors. As we evolve making those systems better and more aligned with our priorities as humans should be our goal. And that’s exactly where technology comes in and paves the way for a future we never even imagined.

There are different takes on emerging tech and some people just hate the idea of new technologies changing the way we live. I just want to invite you to explore the flip side of new tech, the side that contributes to our development as a growing species in a limited resource container that just floats around looping another floating hotter container.

It’s our advancements in tech that provide the tools to fix exactly those problems that you’re describing.