Living In The Age Of Stupid

Words that come back from 2055 to haunt us in 2009? "We wouldn't be the first life form to wipe itself out. But what would be unique about us is that we did it knowingly. What does that say about us?
The question I've been asking is: why didn't we save ourselves when we had the chance? Is the answer because on some level we weren't sure if we were worth saving?"
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The interesting thing, I reckon, about that question, which is asked at the end of the film, is that it is a spiritual question and behind it a spiritual malaise. In fact it rather opened up the possibility that if the answer is that God loves us, therefore we are valuable; then we are worth saving, and it is worth taking action to do something. Hope is needed. That final reflection exposes the despair at the heart of our civilisation, a despair borne of the leakage of hope from our culture. The message of Jesus offers dignity and hope based on a future that includes and embraces the best of humanity. A future that acts not to deny the value of the present but to affirm it where it has lasting value based in the life and love of the threesome 'dances with humanity' God.

What's more, it does seem to me the point where the new atheism definitively fails to help: I can't see how it can offer hope or reason to ascribe value to humanity to motivate us to play a part in saving ourselves and the current ecosystem. If we are merely evolved apes, and we pass our use by date, then apart from the desire to survive we have no reason not to think that other kinds of life should not take our place. And what's more; if it doesn't affect 'me', why should I care? It's just life moving on; human beings are no big deal in the cosmic scheme of things; there is nothing to give us any more value than we put on ourselves, and that value is purely value of our own making which has no value grounded in anything but our own willingness to ascribe it. ...