Well you see, there are two worlds we live in with two radically different futures. In the real world, devastating climate disasters are happening all around us, a highly contagious virus is spreading and mutating, the oceans and the atmosphere temperatures are rising to unliveable limits, species are going extinct at a rapid rate (possibly including us), and civilization has already begun crashing. In the other world, none of this is happening and it makes sense to launch gigantic rockets to circle the moon, open new oil and fracking fields, build new LNG infrastructure, have babies, cut and burn down the Amazon forests, and look forward to an exciting AR/VR metaverse. See ya in the meta! NOT.