> If the clouds turns out to be a really bad storm, people will buckle down and sort it.

100% this. People need to understand this.

The other thing is that it is WAY too easy to distract yourself from your solvable problems by focusing on the big ones - you have to fight that with ferocity.

Why get out of debt? The country is a brazillian trillion in debt we’re doomed.

Why invest for retirement or save? The market is fraud anyway.

Why exercise and lose weight? The planet is doomed anyway.