Well said! I am in my early 70s, and I agree entirely with your assessment.

After the first confirmation of anthropogenic climate disruption from rising CO2 emissions back in the Seventies, we had the chance to acknowledge the evidence and begin a slow but systematic decoupling from fossil fuel dependence. (Even Jimmy Carter got it--remember the solar panels on the White House?). But then Reagan, and corporate greed, and Fox News brainwashing took over, suppressing the science, giving the oil industry everything they wanted, creating yawning gaps between super-rich and all the rest of us, trashing environmental protections, feeding the military-industrial complex, promoting arrogant, jingoistic nationalism, and initiating a vector of pathological politics that culminated in the toxic reign of the utterly truthless Donald Trump.

So here we are. We blew it. And now we're doomed. Unless...what? Nada. The future we have left for our children and grandchildren will be hell on Earth. My only recourse is to reach as many of them as possible with my recently coined slogan for survival: "Grow Gardens, Grow Community, Grow Awareness." So long as I bend all of my efforts to this threefold goal, I will die in peace...