"Unfortunately if we can imagine it, then we tend to build it and make it happen"

Very wise words @realtreebivvy and this is an area that I grapple with on a daily basis. To an extent we all create our own reality and as important as it is to raise an awareness of the issues we face, to acknowledge them and write about them also gradually conditions people to accept them as the new norm. Equally in raising said awareness of the worlds issues we also (to a degree) make ourselves complicit in bringing them into the real world. I believe we are all being manipulated to create the reality of the manipulator .. it's very complex and clever .. but bad news appears to create more bad news and further exasperate the problems that we face. The problem is that the slow but steady drip, drip, drip of negativity conditions people to the problems that we face .. the term boiling frogs springs to mind. Sadly we also can't just sit back and say nothing and so there are no easy answers my friend.