Your point is impossible to miss. That does not make it impossible to disagree with. “Hopium” implies I palliate my distress at environmental catastrophe with the illusion that there’s either hope of avoiding it or that I can personally influence it. I don’t believe either of those things. But that does not give me licence to resign because resignation involves holding less psychological tension. Something comes after the disaster. It might be so dire that no humans are left but we don’t know that. So apart from the small good we can do to mitigate the scale of the disaster *collectively*, we also must start learning right now from the mistakes our forbears made that put us in this mess. We can’t just wait for our kids to sort it all out. We can’t start teaching through our actions. This is how I choose to face our future with some sense of courage and responsibility. That’s not “wrong”. It’s just different to your approach. But you do you. Just don’t tell everybody else that your way of coping - because that’s what it is - is the only right one.