The best of times, the worst of times ...

We know more than ever but stand on the brink of disaster.

• Space science is serving up new mysteries, with more players in the game and exo-planets (NASA, 2021) turning up like seashells on the beach.

• We're starting to bio-engineer ourselves and manufacture tissue (McMillen, 2021).

• And we're venturing into a new era of transparent, decentralized blockchain technologies that could bring the third world out of the financial colonialism trap ( Harnessing, 2021).

BUT we're teetering on the brink of:

• Gulf stream collapse (Lao, 2021) and other climate change horrors.

• Mass extinctions. (Kottasova, 2020).

• And threats of nuclear war (Sheng, 2021)

Can we really be so collectively stupid? Was Q right and Picard wrong? (Farpoint Gambit 2.)

I have to live in the hope implied by humans rebounding from near self-destruction faster than Vulcans. (Vulcans fear The Humans.)

Here's hoping we don't push our luck too far.

#future #doomscrolling #optimism #catastrophe #disaster #humankind #startrek

References

• Farpoint Gambit 2. Star Trek. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuIR6yH1WlU

• Harnessing the promise of blockchain to change lives. (2021, March 2). UNCTAD. Retrieved September 21, 2021, from https://unctad.org/news/harnessing-promise-blockchain-change-lives

• Kottasova, I. (June 1, 2020). The sixth mass extinction is happening faster than expected. Scientists say it's our fault. CNN. Retrieved September 25, 2021, from https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/01/world/sixth-mass-extinction-accelerating-intl/index.html

• Lao, D. ( 2021, Aug 5). Scientists warn of Gulf Stream collapse leading to ‘climate catastrophe’ in Canada, world. Global News. Retrieved September 21, 2021, from https://globalnews.ca/news/8089039/gulf-stream-collapse-study-canada-europe/

• McMillen, D. (2021, June 16). 10 biotechnology breakthroughs in 2021. Explore Biotech. Retrieved September 21, 2021, from https://explorebiotech.com/biotechnology-breakthroughs-2021/

• NASA. (2021, March 22). Exoplanet catalog. Exoplanet Exploration. Retrieved September 21, 2021, from https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/discovery/exoplanet-catalog/

• Sheng, Y. (Sep 16, 2021). Nuke sub deal could make Australia 'potential nuclear war target' Global Times. Retrieved September 25, 2021, from https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202109/1234460.shtml

• Vulcans fear The Humans. Enterprise. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWrzKo84144