Great piece, you are very eloquent. Though as a fellow student of the Buddha I feel terrible at the thought that I am stealing your hope for the future. I really have to find something upbeat to write about.

The quote you use is actually in my very first piece and there is hope in it. Here's some more of what I wrote:

"It will be a New World

When I think about climate change these days, I am reminded of the “Road Runner” cartoons of my childhood.

We are like Wiley Coyote right after he has run off a cliff and has realized he is standing on thin air. Like Wiley Coyote, no matter what we do now, we are going to fall.

As of right now, the current CO2 level is 414 ppm. If we stopped putting carbon in the atmosphere and became a Carbon Zero civilization tomorrow; it would take 10,000 years before the CO2 level in the atmosphere drops back to the preindustrial baseline of 280 ppm.

Our carbon “belch” has already changed the climate for the next 10,000 years.

That’s the world that waits for humanity at the bottom of the cliff we just stepped off. That’s what the world is going to be in, say, 2000 years.

However, most of us cannot think in terms of thousands of years; it’s just too far off. What concerns us is the rest of our lives, and the probable lifetimes of our children and grandchildren.

Don’t panic, despair, or get overwhelmed by it all. Life will go on; the world will go on.

A new world will emerge from the ashes of this one.

Maintain a sense of perspective. Climate Change is going to take thousands of years to play out. This isn’t going to be a “Day After Tomorrow” scenario."

I wish I had more, but this can be enough to stave off despair. The harder we fight now, the better that future will be for them. Even if they don't remember us.