Has "Global Wellbeing" died or is it merely in terminal decay?

 The twenty first century has seen turbulence in a variety of different scenarios, Right Wing Fascists antics, Coronavirus, Religious and Racial intolerance and the inevitable rise in temperature globally which as usual impacts on those least able to combat it !  

Flooding, Forest fires, Droughts and loss of habitat for wild animals, rising sea levels all mean there is a real danger that our system of "Greed is God" Capitalism is in danger of destroying the planet much less individual countries and low lying islands in the oceans.

Global Warming Causes Glaciers to Melt

Not including Antarctica and Greenland's large ice sheets, the world has about 150,000 glaciers that cover about 200,000 square miles of Earth's surface. In the last 40 years, the glaciers have lost what's equal to a layer of ice 70 feet thick due to global warming-related causes, according to a 2019 New York Times article. 

Should I, as a 74 year old coffin dodger worry?  In reality the answer will be no I needn't as I'll probably be so much ash before this all comes home to roost! 

Yet I do worry even more than I did as a glorified youngster during the height of the "Cold War" when serving, on the relatively speaking, "Front Line" of the RAF in Germany while we held our collective breaths in view of the potential of nuclear conflict.

At least then there was "MAD" (mutually assured destruction) to stop the irrational use of nuclear weapons by either side and not too long in the memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki for anyone to think their use would anything other than catastrophic!

I do worry though for my family and indeed society as a whole, as this Global Warming is out of the hands of humans by and large. It is the force of nature over which the human race has very little control but we can take steps to at least slow the process! 

As a true "carnivore" the most painful one for me is the need to cut down on meat consumption since it appears that cows farting contributes largely to the inordinate amount of Methane Gas !  Woe is me when I could murder a T Bone steak by just even thinking of it.