Young people believe efforts to reduce pollution, poverty, and war are doomed to failure  This pessimism is probably harmful to humanity' s future, because people lose motivation to work for goals they think are unrealizable
We must do what we can to prevent this loss of motivation and ttherefore must enable our children to believe that better futures are possible
Enabling people to believe that better futures are possible will help prevent the loss of motivation that results from pessimistic beliefs about the future.