Yep, it's why I don't spend nearly as much time here as I otherwise would. I can't even challenge all the ridiculously negative posts stuck in a current perspective and unable to imagine the future without getting downvoted.

Far too many anti-Capitalist Luddites and Malthusians who don't even comprehend Capitalism and technological change... the very things every futurologist should understand more than anything else. While I am greatly concerned about our future due to climate change, I am also optimistic in technology and hopeful for fusion and other solutions. Why even talk futurology if you don't even believe we have a future?? Even if you don't, futurology sb the lens that looks out at situations where we DO survive: life on other planets after ours dies, life in artificial oxygenated environments, etc.