Being afraid of the unknown instead of having wonder, terrible trait.

Go watch documentaries, they'll do you good.

I mean since when the future has become "repellant"? I and my descendants will live in the future and you will too. I do not want it to be repellant.

I think we do need a certain more "scientific optimism and naivete" given the fact we're letting the image of the future be shaped by capitalism.

It's incredibly sad that this kind of luddite "we will die in Earth" takes have taken hold just because billionaries have gone to space. Yuri Gagarin wasn't the first man in space for people to say "space is bad because rich people"

Good! Now go write an ethnobotany paper!

My bio says "worldbuilding fundamentalist" so take a guess. And yes, it's not the first time I've heard that advice and I like to be flippant about it. It's all about worldbuilding here.