> How do you know at least some of our children are not going to starve, or worse, be forced into warfare over crucial resources? Of course I can't know that,

> How do you know at least some of our children are not going to starve, or worse, be forced into warfare over crucial resources? Of course I can't know that, I have no crystal ball. I'm saying that assuming that we're all doomed is as bad as assuming everything is fine and denying the problem. > 50s optimism and status quo dropped us into most of the current problems. I wasn't advocating 50s optimism but rather saying it's an extreme and we've swung to the other extreme, at least on HN. I'm not optimistic about the future but I'm not fatally pessimistic about it either, at least not anymore. Reading comments here is a good way to trigger that fatal pessimism, make you want to quit your job, buy a gun and go live up a mountain. > It is all fixable but the upheaval is likely going to be massive. We have no idea which form. Exactly my point. There will be upheaval. We have no idea. And it won't be a magical fun time. But it might not be a hellish nightmare apocalypse either. Just bear that in mind, comment readers. Don't fall into despair about the future.