As Mr. Rogers used to say, "look for the helpers".
Team Seas is cleaning up the Pacific garbage patch and installing smaller devices in rivers to prevent pollution from making it out into the ocean.
Martine Rothblatt (creator of SiriusXM) is now leading up a company that was first started to cure her daughter's rare medical condition (which was successful) and is now 3D printing organs for transplant, then created some electric helicopters, because the organs needed to get to the hospital more quickly and quietly.
When you see those new(ish) Coke machines with the touch screens at restaurants, remember that those are there because of a partnership Dean Kamen made with Coke to help distribute Slingshot water purification systems to remote places around the world. His team designed the machine for Coke, and Coke helped him get clean water to people all over the world. There was a documentary about this called Slingshot.
The news likes to push out stories of doom and gloom, because that's what gets attention, but there are a lot of people still doing amazing things. Most of them are too busying making things happen to broadcast it on social media or market it in a way that will inform a lot of people what they're working on. There have always been selfish people in the world and the fall of humanity has been predicted for thousands of years... we're still here. It only takes a few amazing people to save millions. Those people tend to rise to the occasion.
