[trukterious]

Life is good. But technology is morally neutral: it can be used for good or ill.

It's a simple fact that only technology could possibly prevent the next big meteor strike, the next ice age, the next local supernova, etc.

If people feel greedy or jaded or wretched or guilty (or think that all their fellow humans are) I think this is a sign that they need to choose a genuinely important problem to work on. And to have fun working on it -- perhaps with the occasional mango/beach holiday thrown in!