Its hard to be optimistic that humanity is going to come together to implement real solutions that will matter in light of current conditions.
Communities at every level... local, regional, national, etc. are fractured and polarized on nearly every issue whether it be political, economic, scientific, religious, etc. in nature...and can't even agree on basic facts. Combined with current levels of global disparity that already exist at unprecedented levels between the haves and have nots, things will almost certainly continue in business-as-usual fashion.
Seriously?? Would you not concede tremendous progress on every level in the US (individual to corporate) over the last 20-30 years? If you don't think so, try putting a beer can in someone's garbage at a dinner party in Seattle. They'll shame you out the door ..lol
Mike, Jim L, Steve Lang and all affiliated "quacks",
"Global warming" and its all-inclusive/impossible to refute "climate change" successor have been litigated here exhaustively through the many years I've been following this site. Mind you that many of us agnostics bordering on atheists on this secular religion can probably demonstrate much stronger credentials in science- I would enjoy seeing a comparison of Mr. Lang's CV and those of Messrs. Reader, Emerson, Kirk, et. al.- but does it really matter? Minds are closed and we're mostly pissing into the wind.
Perhaps psychology might provide some insights to Kalen's despair. Those who are prone to focus on the resources of other people will seldom be happy with their own fortunes (the often repeated caution not to compare yourself to others as you will always find people who are better off and some who are worse, so why bother!).
All living things have a strong sense of survival and, through evolution, the ability to adapt to ever-changing circumstances is in the DNA. For those Malthusians living among us but still a bit weak in the faith, maybe the following book might save you from total nihilism.
https://www.amazon.com/False-Alarm-Climate-Change-Trillions/dp/1541647467No doubt that the environmentalist Left has excommunicated Bjorn Lomborg and declared him a heretic quack. But maybe his evolved, current POV on climate change offers a better path forward for those who have a very low opinion of the common man and the need for our betters in government, the statists, to direct our ways.
Me, with five granddaughters under the age of 10, I fear the coercive response of government to the perceived calamity of man-made climate change much more than any real change in the environment as a result of continuing trends in the use of energy, population growth, food production, golf development, and most uses of natural resources for them and their future children.