Sometimes I Feel Very Sad
Looking forward
What Do I See?
Global warming
We can’t control the monster we’ve unleashed. We lack the political will and the engineering skill. The seas will rise. The coasts will be inundated.
War
Mutual assured destruction (MAD) is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy which posits that a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by an attacker on a nuclear-armed defender with second-strike capabilities would result in the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender. (Wikipedia)
I have lived my entire life with the threat of Mutual Assured Destruction. The current political landscape clearly highlights the looming possibility of worldwide collapse.
Pandemics
COVID came and stayed. Millions died as a result. Will the next pandemic be less virulent, or more?
Population control?
Sure, the planet can hold more humans! But at what cost?
Reduced landmass from rising oceans can’t be fixed. Houses under water can’t be lived in.
Where is the tipping point into extinction? How long will it take?
Space travel
Leave how? Go where? For what? Why? Furthermore, who cares? If you leave for another star, you can’t come back. If you can’t solve the problems that make life miserable here, you will just repeat the patterns elsewhere.
