Science can point the direction, but it takes the will of large populations of individuals to put in the effort to achieve any kind of positive outcome. That wi

Science can point the direction, but it takes the will of large populations of individuals to put in the effort to achieve any kind of positive outcome. That will has been continually undermined and attacked by anti-science rhetoric driven by economic and political interests, culminating in our modern "alternative facts" anti-reality bubbles so many people seem lost inside of. People need to move beyond hope into action, populations need to value education, learning, and the discipline to undertake massive endeavours if the knowledge gained through careful science is to have any value at all to humanity. "Sure but what's in it for me."