Jillian, I write for intellectuals, for the highly educated and the highly intelligent. Most of my readers tend to be older as well. I have never, in all my years of being published, ever sought to connect with people emotionally. The fact that some do is a by-product.

I think you're missing the point here. The future - all our futures - is nothing but gloom and doom. There is no positive future. Anyone who wants to tell you otherwise has not done a geology degree, a virology degree, or looked at the solid evidence for where we're going.

Here's what we're facing.

1. Increased flooding, drought, shortage of food, fires, violent storms which will result in massive destruction all over the world on almost a daily basis. It is already on a weekly basis. Take any day of the week and google on youtube for where the world is flooding, where there are fires, and the rate of destruction becomes obvious.

2. Zoonotic diseases are that are passed inter-species, and which humankind has developed no natural immunity too. They're on the increase. Pandemics are going to come hard and fast. Far from Covid being over, it's probably here to stay, and the current vaccine was not geared for the current variant.

3. The world is becoming increasingly more violent with people becoming angrier and angrier. The pentagon posted 8 years ago that there would be future futures over resources. Russia's basic need for the Ukraine is resource based. There are fewer and fewer people in Russia.

4. Accorrding to the doomsday clock (started by Einstein and his associates), we are 90 seconds away from nuclear annihilation. By January next year, if it hasn't happened yet, it willl be closer to 15 seconds.

There's a lot more.

I understand your need for positivity. However, looking at the world through rose colored glasses is not the thing to do when we're facing extinction and annihilation. I'm dreadfully sorry that some people get depressed when they read all this.

I looked at it, and I decide what I'm going to do about it. Here's what I do.

1. I start writing about it to warn and inform people.

2. I prepare for it by putting myself in a safe place.

I see the dangers and take positive actions. Getting depressed about it is hardly the best response.