Pessimistic people! We live in an age of wonders - our most recent achievement alone would have been unbelievable just 5 years ago: a vaccine technology that c

Pessimistic people! We live in an age of wonders - our most recent achievement alone would have been unbelievable just 5 years ago: a vaccine technology that can have a turnover counted in days. We're now talking about using it to develop vaccines against new things like EBV! Yet many people, mostly in Europe (but sadly now in the US costs too), seem to always believe the sky is falling - moving from one explanation to another as needed: if it's not Covid, then it's monkeypox - or a war. Or the price natural gas. From my American perspective, they sure love complaining, but don't seem to like very much finding solutions (ex: spending money on an Army to protect them instead of depending on our generosity, using the same fracking technology that has provided us so much oil & gas that it's simpler to let the methane flares burn...) Noticing how common that attitude is - so much that is now has name ("doomerism") and a motto ("the world is burning in front of our eyes") makes me very pessimistic about the future.