Hell, I thought you were gonna be the optimist here.

No, we can pull ourselves out of the worst of it but of course we won't. I wrote a fiction story saying exactly that.

We're going to be hit with interrelated environmental, economic and political crises at the same time. We already are. A massive global Marshall Plan type initiative could potentially bring us in for a soft landing, but we can't even get millions of entitled pricks to wear a fucking face mask.