Why can’t we see that we’re living in a golden age?

[davidn3600]

19. People are pessimistic because they realize this can't last

Computer projections show civilization is heading for very serious problems by around 2040-2050. The human population will exceed 10 billion. We will be reaching a point where the Earth can no longer sustain us. There will be an ever-increasing fight for limited resources.

Global climate change will increasingly be a problem. We are eventually going to have shortages with fossil fuels likely by the end of the century. Our rain forests are depleting.

You also have more powerful pathogens than we ever had. Many diseases are becoming resistant to our treatments. Doctors continue to warn that we will likely see the end of the antibiotics age within our lifetime. Already, diseases that we thought we conquered are making a comeback, like Tuberculosis. Pandemics will become a greater and greater threat moving forward as the population continues to increase as well as our speed and volume of international travel.

Call this a "golden age" if you want....but it won't last. History proves that prosperity never lasts forever. All empires rise and fall. America won't be an exception.
And this isn't fear-mongering. Super computers recently showed the downward spiral of our civilization could begin as soon as 2030. It's mathematics. What the world is doing today is simply unsustainable. That's not theory, it's fact.