Its Easy to Extrapolate How Things Will Get Worse

Maybe we're hardwired to be pessimists because if you're correct when you're optimistic, then you have a small gain, but if you are wrong when you're optimistic and you get eaten by a tiger, it goes to zero. So, maybe we're hardwired to be pessimistic in that sense.

At the moment, there's a whole bunch of political forces that are pessimistic about the possibilities for the Earth being able to enable people to thrive off into the distant future. But at the moment, we're very concerned about the pollution or the loss of certain species. And these are legitimate concern for some people but it should never be at the expense of the long-term vision that perhaps we can solve all of those problems and far more if only we could have progress at a faster rate by using the resources that we have available to us.