We keep talking and acting like planet earth and all things on it are complete, dire and just hopeless. Greed, tribalism, inequality, hyperinflation, and other acts of humans stoke fear that we are coming to the end of the road. There are lots of doomsayers out there and they predict catastrophic consequences for the error of our ways.

But, wait a minute, are we the same group that originated from the sea, learned to move on land, swung from trees, learned to walk upright, lived in caves, (along with tigers and lions), discovered fire and the wheel and created pictures on cave walls, learned to hunt, moved out of caves into primative shelters, learned weaving, sailing, exploring, warfare, trading, invented the printing press, gunpowder, musical instruments, created governments of all types, changed trading stones into paper monies, created empires, anesthesia, penicillin, submarines, smart phones, AI and more. All through these …