I agree with the assessment as written, and I am not hopeless. A lot of people are awakening to one small earth and the existential threat to our short lived species. The beauty of consciousness, no matter how distorted or limited, is that it can change. I will work to change mine in actions of caring for others and this environment. I will be open minded for my consciousness to be changed. Worse case I will fail and in that instance not be the least dissatisfied, having dared and tried. Maybe there is a tipping point and our species has a what Thomas Kuhn in “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” called a paradigm shift.