How guilty do I feel? It depends on the day you ask me. If you ask me when I am feeling like a pessimist, then I don't feel great about it. My attitude is that

How guilty do I feel? It depends on the day you ask me. If you ask me when I am feeling like a pessimist, then I don't feel great about it. My attitude is that we're 7 billion all living under one bedsheet and guilting the people who pass gas. Eventually we will all suffocate. Living as though humanity needs palliative care is disturbing. It might be the most realistic, but I can't process it every day. If you ask me when I am feeling like an optimist, then morbidly, I feel that we have embraced driving over a cliff, but that while we are airborne, we might design wings, test them, and learn to fly before plummeting to our deaths. If you ask me when I am feeling like a cynic, then someone is going to bioengineer a population reducer, and 1% of us will inherit the earth before 2100. That would also solve the problem, but I won't get to be around to enjoy it. Here's the rub, none of these require me to do anything differently. Now tell me how I can add a fourth option that I can genuinely believe has some reasonable metric for improving our chances. I'm having such a hard time finding it, and I think that people like me, left to compound their depressed thoughts, invariably turn into the enemy on this global effort. Anyone, please?