We must abandon our simplistic worldview and stop thinking that somebody or something (or as-yet-undeveloped technology) will save us.
There are two thought poisons embedded deeply in western culture, and together they threaten to kill us all, or at least turn the world into a hellscape we'd never wish on our grandchildren or anybody else, even Republicans.
They're the collision of salvationist christianity and Cartesian thinking. In a way, these philosophical contemporaries brought us our modern conception of hell, as characterized in
the third triptych by Hironymous Bosch on which Leonardo DiCaprio
based a documentary about global warming.
Cartesian thought isn't entirely the "fault" of René Descartes, but he certainly popularized the notion with his idea that the entire universe could be likened to a giant machine.
Everything runs according to certain laws, he suggested, and if you can just figure out the laws and find the right levers and switches, you can alter the course of nature to your liking in scales from the micro to the massive.
Read more at
HartmannReport.com.
-Thom