Why would anyone be optimistic about the future of our planet?

Question

Every decade seems to bring us closer to the final curtain?

Answer 1

Because most people are deluded and refuse to see what's right before their eyes and accept their role in the destruction of our planet and the human race.

Answer 2

when the earth gets tired of us it will flick us off like a flea

Answer 3

Well, even after the final curtain, the earth will still most likely be here with or without us.  And life will most likely re-form again.  And all of the energy and spirit of the earth will still be here.  So, what's to worry about?  And even after the sun does what it does, which I guess is to sort of burn up the earth, our energy will go somewhere, so it's all good anyway.

If we don't destroy the earth, it will be destroyed someday anyway, just like we will all die someday regardless of how or when.  

Now I still think that it's a good idea to try to make the earth a pleasant place in which to live and to try to make life for all creatures as good as possible.  So, the efforts to make earth more "healthy" is certainly worth it.

Answer 4

Faith. Hope.

Answer 5

People today are optimistic for the same reasons that people where optimistic five hundred years ago.  The potentials with technologies are mind staggering.  The problem is that people lack the foundations of knowledge such as mathematics, chemistry and physics to understand their own world.  Because of their weakness in mathematics they cannot comprehend economic reality in this world and therefore cannot tell the difference between who is telling them the truth and who is manipulating them.  Get rid of television, and you will have made a beginning to thinking for yourself.  No one in the West can understand their cultural heritage without having thoughtfully read the Bible.

Answer 6

i know!!!!! y do ppl everyday talk about the world being over? everyday its global warming they talk about. JEZZ just forget about it cuz were all gonna die sumday. just hav fun while ur still alive

Answer 7

well if you consider human occupation of the earth to be important then yeah its a little hopeless seeming , even if we dont destroy the earth ourselves there will eventually be some global change that wipes us out,it happens over and over again in the earths "cycles"

the earth itself is pretty stable, human beings are not at all important or needed for the planets well being, as a matter of fact it would be better off igf we all died off.