Ask HN: Do you feel optimistic about the future?

Insofar that the current turmoil provides opportunities which, while growing up, I considered shut for my generation.

No. Life was much easier a decade ago.

Yes, read Factifulness if you're not. Media has been increasingly tuned towards negative reactions since we're genetically wired to pay attention to them more for survival... which they've been doing an increasingly good job at recently.

No and yes, mostly due to climate change but for the nearer future I am worried about nationalism and violence being on the rise,

What lessens this pessimism a bit are news like this

> Men's Sperm Count Has Dropped Over 60% Globally In 45 Years

Nature finds it's way to balance things.

Yes, I do.

I do it to rebel against the negative outlook that is constantly being pushed in the media and the people who revel in telling everyone how the world sucks and how it's going to get even worse.

I also do it because most of the time that things are nowhere near as bad as these people insist. The pandemic was a great example of that, I remember reading how we have at least 5 years of lockdowns ahead of us, how there will never be a vaccine and even if there will be one we won't get it before 2025. The reality is that it's 2022 and no one even talks about the coronavirus anymore. I'm almost convinced that the so-called "energy crisis" is the same and I wonder if the upcoming "recession" will be similar.