When I think about the future, mostly, I think about climate change.

I think about hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, wildfires, drought, millions of people without homes.

And it scares the living hell out of me.

So today, we conclude our series on hope with the most pressing and pertinent question of our time.

Do we have a future?

I cried twice when my daughter was born, the first time for joy, and the second time for

sorrow.

I worry myself sick about the melting ice caps, the escalating arms race, and the polluted air as I look forward with hope to the cleansing rains.

I think hope is essential. Despair is the worst of sins.

Finding hope in dark times. Our series continues with a look into the near future.

It's to the best of our knowledge from PRX.

Wisconsin Public Radio.

It's to the best of our knowledge.

Here's the question of the day.

Are we doomed?

I mean, seriously, it's possible that climate change is already irreversible.

I think everybody at some level is scared about it.

And also sad.

I am.

I cried twice when my daughter was born the first time for joy as any father would, the second time for sorrow.

Good evening the world has never been spoken to quite this. This is right. This is writer Roy Scranton.

His baby daughter is now almost two years old.

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