We live in a changing world.
I’m even convinced that ‘Man’ has contributed to that change, or at least the rate of that change. I’m unconvinced that it can be slowed or stopped, much less reversed.
One of the (few) benefits of age is that, not merely do you occasionally (and increasingly) live in the past but your recollection of (some aspects of) the past can be quite vivid. I do for example remember, in my formative years, the scientific doom & gloom caused by an imminent Ice Age, hastened perhaps by a Nuclear Winter.
In the 70’s we were told that in 20 years there wouldn’t even be enough oil for agricultural needs and that we would experience mass starvation on a global scale plunging civilization back into quite literally a new dark age.
Shame on me, I actually gave credence to some of those Snake-Oil Salesmen, not anymore!