I'm horrified by the negativity and fatalism in this thread. Do things seem dire? Yes. Is this the time to give up? No! We all already know what needs to be

I'm horrified by the negativity and fatalism in this thread. Do things seem dire? Yes. Is this the time to give up? No! We all already know what needs to be done. What we lack is the political will to do so because 50% of our political leadership has refused to acknowledge any necessary action and instead keeping everyone busy with distractions like threatening trans people and re-banning medical procedures. There is an appalling lack of focus on the big picture from the percentage of the population that, let's face it, is motivated by religion and nothing else. We have a rising threat of authoritarian fascism worldwide, and it's NOT in order to save humanity by enacting sweeping societal change to address our warming planet, but is instead to reintroduce hierarchical societal roles based on gender, race, and sexuality, and give those at the top of the food chain another generation of blissful prosperity while the planet burns. Our ancestors overthrew governments, assassinated leaders, and uprooted whole societies over far less. I realize a community of technologists and startup enthusiasts benefit from capitalism, but it needs to be asked whether the system that brought so much prosperity to humanity over the last 100 years will be the same that brings us atrocities and gloom in the next 100. Painful revolution must not be considered off the table.