Part of the problem is that the distant future to humans is never any further out than ~70 years - eg our lifespans. Exponential resource waste, population gro

Part of the problem is that the distant future to humans is never any further out than ~70 years - eg our lifespans. Exponential resource waste, population growth, etc doesn't become a non-survivable event for a few more generations - at that point we may actually start to see realistic change.