a contrast of visions

From Yes! Magazine:

By what name will future generations know our time?

Will they speak in anger and frustration of the time of the Great Unraveling, when profligate consumption exceeded Earth’s capacity to sustain and led to an accelerating wave of collapsing environmental systems, violent competition for what remained of the planet’s resources, and a dramatic dieback of the human population? Or will they look back in joyful celebration on the time of the Great Turning, when their forebears embraced the higher-order potential of their human nature, turned crisis into opportunity, and learned to live in creative partnership with one another and Earth?

I love that opening question. Of course, one could even make the case that there will be no future generations if we do not act to save humanity from the double threat, as suggested, of Global War and Environmental Collapse... Will this generation be remembered as the one which blindly pursued a path of not just self- but global-destruction? Or will it be remembered as the one which courageously found a better way?