Humanity’s problems can be pretty terrifying in their pervasiveness, scope, and severity: climate change, corruption, poverty, etc. However, despair is not a solution, as it only unveils one path forward—failure.

Maybe we can find resiliency through an honest assessment of the situation. The circumstances are grim, and we must exert enormous effort, but we also contain some crucial advantages for the first time in the history of our species: an awareness of others around the globe, widespread education and literacy rates, and truly powerful technology.

There is a wide open field before us, not a dark tunnel. We have options, we have choices, and we have the ability to change the world—let’s step up and go do it.