All of those are being solved though. Carbon capture technology has moved out of R&D and into the productionization phase. There are multiple ongoing efforts t

All of those are being solved though. Carbon capture technology has moved out of R&D and into the productionization phase. There are multiple ongoing efforts to remove plastic from the ocean and other waterways which are currently actually removing plastic, not just working on R&D. There's also tons of work on how to breakdown plastic, so we aren't stuck with it forever. Mental health is honestly a harder problem because there's less that can be directly qualified, but I'd point to the recent successes with drugs like MDMA, Ketamine, and mushrooms as a very promising avenue. Currently they seem most well suited for those who are worst off, but that is likely just the start. The knowing you're drowning part is super important. We haven't been visibly drowning in atmospheric pollution until say the past decade or so, even though the levels were absolutely astonishingly high. Similar with mental health, in the US we are now really drowning in mass shootings, which wasn't the case even 10 years ago. Search results similarly have been like kind of shitty for a long time, the past 5 years at least, but they were and are still navigable. The drowning hasn't started in search yet either.