Reply #165: Your point is very well taken.

[The Doctor.]

Frustration.

It's as though we travelers are on a bus headed toward a future where humanity can flourish and claim our destiny. To fail to arrive is extinction. Yet there are many on the bus who are siphoning off gas to turn a profit, draining the battery for entertainment, and just pulling parts and wires out for personal gain.
You say to them; we can't do that, we'll never make it to our destination.

They call you an 'alarmist'. The bus is still moving... so no problem.

You point to the gas guage, the battery indicator, you show them How the missing control-rod is going to cause the tire to fall off soon.

They say; "Well, none of those things make sense because the bus is still running."

You know it's all about to fall apart, but you can't get them to listen, let alone stop destroying our vehicle to the future. You know that once it stops running, our children will have to limp on toward that future, and they will curse our foolishness.

At the very least, you don't want to be counted among the idiots. At best, you want to get a few of them to think, "What if it's true?"

There are no subtle hints, kind words, or 'helpful suggestions' to make them stop. It's going to take laws and subsequent prosecutions of industry leaders to get it to stop. Unfortunately those industries have the ignorant masses in their thrall, so the laws will never pass.

Our descendents should know how these people were brainwashed so that it never happens again.

Other than that, the only thing we may have left is guilt.


And BTW; This rate of change has never occurred before without some catastophic event provoking it.