Chris Hadfield

You know, we are almost the only species, if not the only one, that can imagine things that don't exist yet.

And that's our big lever.

That's what has given us the great advantage in the animal kingdom, right?

Is we can picture things that haven't happened yet and take action and build things and do things anticipating something that's coming and not just reacting to how we feel right now.

And, you know, leading this big international technology incubator or looking at some of the creativity that's going on around the world.

And when you said 8.3 billion people loose with the activity of their minds, it's just wild the stuff we can come up with.

And so that gives me great optimism.

the history of our species gives me great optimism as well despite the daily ability to snuff ourselves out to to stop all civilization to do ourselves irreparable harm we are still here after many hundreds of thousands of years despite our destructive nature we find a way to muddle through and and keep and keep it going and we have rises and falls but we're we're still here and and um

So when people say, oh, we're ruining the world and it's never been as hard to be an adult or a human as it is right now and all of that.

It's hard, but it's always been hard.

You're just demonstrating your ignorance of history when you say stuff like that.

I don't think your great grandparents would have said they weren't worried about existentialism.

You know, the First World War, Second World War, the, gosh, nuclear weapons being invented, the McCarthyism, Vietnam War.

That's just the last hundred years.

So...

So I'm quite excited about our ability to invent and create and do things that overall end up being better for the human condition.

And we're big enough now in population that we're slowly gaining a better awareness of that impact globally and what we're going to do about that.

You know, if there were only a thousand of us, we wouldn't have to worry.

But there's enough of us now that we just need to consider that and how we generate energy and

what we do with our garbage and stuff like that.