>If the issue were important enough to the majority of people then being in favor of this would make it very hard to get elected This assumes the majority of p

>If the issue were important enough to the majority of people then being in favor of this would make it very hard to get elected This assumes the majority of people have the technical capacity to understand the ramifications of the situation. >We've arranged a global civilization in which the most crucial elements — transportation, communications, and all other industries; agriculture, medicine, education, entertainment, protecting the environment; and even the key democratic institution of voting, profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. -Carl Sagan