The problem is the scientists didn’t warn us!
If only they had protested and lit themselves on fire and tried to tell me my Hummer H2 was bad!
Well, whatever. Time for me to drive my Hummer to church so I can get another hit of truth.
It’s a bit of a reductionist and humorous argument here but they weighed “Stopping the Industrial Revolution” against “Certain Death”, and decided that maybe the people of the future would be wiser than they were and invent a solution to the problem, similar to how they invented the steam engine to solve the issue of manual and animal labor.
Obviously that didn’t really work out, because the people of the future did in fact, invent a solution, but it was completely ignored in lieu of profit-seeking.
Somehow the problem invented was technological, spanned into the natural, but the solution pending was sociopolitical.
Homo sapiens is a rare breed.
I just watched an episode of Nova from 1977 called The Dawn of the Solar Age. They showed off fully functional hydrogen powered cars. They discussed in depth NASAs fully fleshed plan to launch solar satellites. There were interviews with some amazingly brilliant men with such high hopes for the future of humanity. Then they interviewed a politician who essentially said ‘Yeah, that’s not happening.’
The future we were robbed of looked to be so bright. Shame.
Greed. It will fuck us all over, even if it is not our greed.
