It's downright awful out there

[snot]

46. "Nothing is inevitable,

. . . except defeat for those who give up without a fight."
– "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" (1961), script by Irwin Allen & Charles Bennett.

And no matter how hopeless it seems,
"It was too late to prevent the great Fall, but it was still possible, at least, to cut short the intermediate period of chaos."
– Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation, P. 87 (ed. Bantam June, 2004; first published 1953).

Everything is connected, every little bit helps, and as Yeats wrote, "All things fall and are built again, and those that build them again are gay." - Lapis Lazuli.

("Gay" had a little different meaning back then, of course.)