The Importance of Belief in Our Future

I wonder how much of the choices we make now are reliant on this belief in our future both individual and society. What might change about how we feel about ourselves if suddenly the sense of human legacy and human civilization comes into question? If I am not sure that the people born today will actually survive in great numbers into adulthood because there's food that might be scarce waters that’s going to be scarce, he says. He adds: "It just takes so much energy away from progress"