re: #149 Cato the Elder

That was then. This is now. We are on the whole just lazy monkeys living off the human inheritance of millennia.

As long as gasoline is cheaper than buying a whole new car that runs on a yet-to-be-produced energy source, for instance, people will keep buying it, whether the cost is $3 per gallon or $17.

And yet the energy sources are available and so is the technology to make electric vehicles. It is not that the technology is lacking, it is policy thaat is lacking because of the vested financial interests blocking such policy. This is of course coupled with the human will to simply deny real problems that are staring them in the face.

There is no Hollywood happy ending here if we do not act. People either get that and get it soon or you will be correct and our civilization will have signed its own death warrant.