No Fear, just Hope
In the 1970, the “Club of Rome” (who wrote “The Limits to Growth” and influenced many so-called influencers and policy makers like Jean-Marc Jancovici) claimed that the world will be out of oil in 20 to 30 years. Today, in 2026, gas cars are still running and gas price fluctuated around $3/$4 over the past 5 years.
In the 2000s, after making the movie “An inconvenient truth”, Al Gore claimed the Arctic ice will be gone in a matter of months. As of today, the Arctic Ice is still here.
In 2019, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warned us that the “World Is Going to End in 12 Years”. Just 7 years after such a claim, I am pretty confident the world will still be around in 2031.
Fear sells everywhere - this is one of the greatest marketing technique (just think about the FOMO many experience on a regular basis), this is why salespeople or politicians use it everywhere to sell their product (be a security system, a miraculous medication or a revolutionary program that will lower your tax and get you more public services at the same time!).
And today, a new fear just landed in our societal landscape: AI, job displacement and more globally, search for meaning. You hear politicians and influencers claims that “data center will turn your water brown” or that “AI is going to take your job”, triggering anxiety among the working class and ultimately questioning our existence and meaning (what will we do if we have no job?).
Instead of fear, I prefer to choose hope and believe in ourselves.
We are resilient and every time we face serious issues, we were able to figure them out and overcome our problems. And instead of listening to uneducated salespeople pushing their own agenda, we’d rather think for ourselves and evaluate if a change is good or not for society.
When it comes to AI, there is a lot to figure out today but there is no question there is a big potential for us. Like with any technology, we will need to adapt but we will grow as a society and get better. Instead of rejecting technology without any good reason, we should wonder how we can use it for the greater good.