After listening to President elect Trump say his focus is “drill baby drill” yesterday, and watching parts of LA burn today (due to climate change driven weather); I have to wonder: Are we screwed? Adding more CO2 to the atmosphere will only make our planet uninhabitable for humans. I am a student of history and I know that poor leadership results in the failure of societies. The climate crisis has an expiration date when it turns into an extinction crisis. Humanity must realize that we will have to turn to each other and not on each other to survive, but that does not appear to be what we are doing. The destructive events keep coming and getting worse. We are all responsible for making the world around us better; not being selfish and drifting to destruction. Some researchers say we are heading towards a murder off and then a die off as we selfishly seek comfort and power while failing to make changes. Research and act as if survival depended on your actions. There is hope for the future but it will not place itself in our hands. We will have to work, and act, to turn hope into a mighty river of reality.