Elisabet Sahtouris, Feb. 28's Awakin Call speaker, had some pretty tough and challenging words to say about our future as a result of global warming,. Yet she retains her optimism in spite of that, which is inspiring. During the course of her talk, she said this, which is something I should print out and put up on my refrigerator: "You have so much more fun as an optimist than as a pessimist. You just debilitate yourself if you're a pessimist, and if you're an optimist you'll do something"