Dear Joe,
It seems, you wanted an answer to the question:"How humanity should steer the future?"
My essay deals with only one aspect of solution, namely, humanity can steer the future by increasing knowledge. We should keep increasing our knowledge and understanding of the universe.
Second thing is to maintain friendly relationship with every nation and religion. We should derive good points from every religion, and all the nations should acknowledge them and include them in their actions.
Third thing is all the nations should contribute their effoerts towards reduction of polution. Exhausts from vehicles may not be completely avoidable; but we can at lest stop the practice of disposing garbage by burning.
Fourthly, in addition to inventing new and new methods of producing clean energy, that is, producing energy with a minimum polution; we should also adopt every method of saving energy. I had deviced some methods as described in:
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnx0aGV1bHRpbWF0ZXJlYWxpdHlzaXRlfGd4OjY1NGU4ZDZjNGU4M2RiOGU
Hope, you will find these answers somewhat satisfactory.
Sincerely,
Hasmukh K. Tank