I’ve written before about the issues we’re faced with on Earth (here, here and here), and how I believe it doesn’t really matter whether or not we have a chance in hell to get our act together and save Earth, or not. Our species has the capacity to go both ways, but we owe it to our most precious quality, namely humanity, to try, regardless the outcome.
Below is a short speech by former astronaut Wubbo Ockels, who died last year. I like his zest. Up until the very end, he tried, wanting to bring across a message he strongly believed in, a message bigger than life.
My own steps in life may be small, but I am consciously moving in the same direction, and I know and feel that many others are doing so as well. We value our humanity, and we try. We seem to try harder and harder each day. That in and of itself is enough.