That world exists in the imaginary term: the land of wonderful things we could have in the long term, if everyone would just not do the thing they absolutely wi

That world exists in the imaginary term: the land of wonderful things we could have in the long term, if everyone would just not do the thing they absolutely will do in the short term. All solutions that need everyone to "just" unfortunately have one thing in common: they fail. It doesn't matter what could happen if everyone "just"—they won't. It doesn't matter that "but if they did"—they won't. It doesn't matter that "Ok, but if"—they won't. "But if" is not a possibility, and operating like it is will only keep us from whatever progress toward that wonderful thing we could actually make, incomplete as it might be.