This is the type of article that needs to be highlighted. It's too easy to find bad news. Our news media survives on it so that's what they feed us. Ultimately

This is the type of article that needs to be highlighted. It's too easy to find bad news. Our news media survives on it so that's what they feed us. Ultimately we choose whether things are getting better or not. I tend to go with Warren Buffett who advocates optimism and says that if it all falls apart it won't matter. I remember reading in "How to Be Rich by J Paul Getty" about how bad things were when getty wrote the book. Ideas which were directly gathered from what the media was reporting. Yet, he knew that things were not that bad and he says so in the book. He published his book in 1965. Things aren't as gloomy as the media portrays. The best way to look at the world and the future is to see that there are problems and we need to fix them. But it does not mean that it's all going to fall apart. We have control of what happens in the future and we need to act like it.