I feel like the world has no future.

[SvennoJ]

Can't say I don't have similar thoughts more often.

Then I try to remind myself we got through the Cold war, Cuban missile crisis, Ozone layer depletion, Acid rain destroying forests and buildings, Tsjernobyl, Mad cow disease, Covid-19 and we're still here.

Then I look at Gaza, people still hanging on, even managing to smile and enjoy life in between horrors. Then I look at my grandparents that managed to live through WW2 and their parents though WW1. 

Yeah life is likely going to be a lot tougher in the West compared to the cushy 90s and naughties. Non of the current problems are an existential threat to human life, they are to capitalism and the current world order though. 

PFA's are the new pesticides poisoning us, like mercury poisoning fish which is poisoning us again. And climate change and running out of clean ground water are going to be huge problems, already are. 

The biggest problem with humanity is, we don't act until people seriously start getting sick and dying :/ Solutions are there like desalination plants for clean water. Capitlism remains in the way for change, short term profits, no long term solutions. You can say a lot about China, but China is working hard on solutions for the future. Authoritarian regimes do have some benefits for long term planning.

And I would give gen-z a bit more credit. Yeah most are asleep at their phone, but there are plenty that are wide awake and see the challenges ahead. Plus Mamdami getting elected in NY does inspire hope for the future.

But a great depression is definitely on the cards :/ The 2030s are going to be tough.