We May Have A Sense of Impending Doom, But Humankind Has a Hopeful Future

Once-pervasive fears of nuclear war subsided with the end of the Cold War in 1990. But the anxieties we face today seem greater.

My friend Bruce wrote, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, in May, 2020 shortly after mass quarantine from the coronavirus: “This is the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962 that I have faced the possibility of ext…