I am an optimist who has had 55 years of evangelism for Nature and Music largely ignored. Rather, human population has grown, increased consumption of meat, energy, and plastic, and devolved to ever lower levels of audio (MP3, AAC, phones) and composition (producer -computer - cloned music) in the quest for the false goals of comfort, convenience, and shiny objects.
I want to project a positive action message, but when I do I get no response. I get the most reactions to political criticism.
Our leaders have responded to this societal feedback algorithm by turning into followers of the almighty click, whether a touchscreen, mouse, or remote control. Is the Great Spirit now a button that triggers endorphins?
Even rats change their behavior to addiction to whatever is in their cage when they are isolated or crowded. We have become adrenalin junkies to our devices because we are separated, lonely in a crowd, or conforming to the mob mentality.
Social media is both a sword of division and a tribal gathering for the wide, thin, spread of individuals who observe critically and do not think humans are the center of the Universe.
We are on a blue speck in the middle of the vast emptiness between the outer spiral arms of a small galaxy out of billions of galaxies, orbiting a small star out of billions of stars in a Universe that extends beyond the ability of light to reach us, because it is not fast enough. Our location is critical in the formation of life, because we had enough extinction events but not too many.
It also takes an evolutionary pathway through two supernova events to build up this concentration of Iron, because it is the magnetic field from the molten Iron core that prevents the solar wind from killing the primordial forms.