Optimismus und Zukunft

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Vergangene Generationen hatten mit natürlichen Sorgen und Ängsten zu kämpfen. Seit 150 Jahren ist jedoch die Tendenz zu beobachten, dass für die folgende Generation etwas besseres, "mehr" gehofft wird. Dieser Tage gibt es jedoch keinen Optimismus mehr:

The article goes on to point out that most preceding generations had
their worries too, from disease to hunger to nuclear war, but that, for
the last 150 years, there has been a general optimism that the next
generation was going to have it better. It is, Penhryn Jones argues,
.much harder to be optimistic now.. She discusses the predicament with
fellow environmental activists, climate campaigners and parents, and
while it is clear she does not see much hope for a rosy future, she says
that parents can.t indulge in pessimism. Author and activist Mark Lynas
agrees, noting that the future is anything but decided:

In a sense we're returning to the uncertainties of our evolutionary
past. But many of the situations I've written about are avoidable. I
genuinely think we can do something about climate change.
Quelle

Die moderne "Unsicherheit" ist weit davon entfernt, mit historischen verglichen zu werden.