Indeed. For my entire life (beginning in the 1960s), there has been one grim apocalyptic vision of the future after another. Usually several running concurrently.

Some propagated by fringe groups, some not-so-fringe, some by scientists (the encroaching ice age prognostications, for starters).

In kindergarten, we learned to duck-and-cover as well as finger-paint.

In the 1970s, by many measures a putrid decade, the 80s were looking particularly grim -- by 2000 the Earth surely would be a wasteland, decimated by man-made or natural cause.

We shouldn't take the future for granted. We have to work at making it better and dealing with real threats. All the while staying hopeful, savoring today, maintaining perspective and having faith.

And keeping those bug-out bike tires inflated.


;-)