To be honest -- and this is not the ideal world I would wish to live in -- my hopes as an American mostly lie in technological solutions to climate change, plus political systems that make most bad changes incredibly difficult (because they make all change difficult).
We have a crappy culture and our democracy is threatened, but things could be unfathomable orders of magnitude worse. Over in Russia, kids are being forced to kill their neighbors and relatives to inflate the ego of their wannabe Peter the Great II.
Somebody will come along and say "well actually we do the exact same thing here"... no we don't. Vietnam and Iraq were awful in their own ways but they weren't that.
If we can technology our way out of climate change somehow + avoid becoming some flavor of fascist or communist in the next few decades, I'm pretty optimistic about the future. Progress will continue.
We have a crappy culture and our democracy is threatened, but things could be unfathomable orders of magnitude worse. Over in Russia, kids are being forced to kill their neighbors and relatives to inflate the ego of their wannabe Peter the Great II.
Somebody will come along and say "well actually we do the exact same thing here"... no we don't. Vietnam and Iraq were awful in their own ways but they weren't that.
If we can technology our way out of climate change somehow + avoid becoming some flavor of fascist or communist in the next few decades, I'm pretty optimistic about the future. Progress will continue.