> The other problem is that the media & political rhetoric today has damaged our ability to be effectively stimulated by “oh fuck” moments. First of all, it’s

> The other problem is that the media & political rhetoric today has damaged our ability to be effectively stimulated by “oh fuck” moments. First of all, it’s still not everybody’s backyard, especially not the people in power with the ability to change things. Out of sight, out of mind. > That was this year. Oh, fuck...? Yep, you get it, HN crowd for sure gets it. But ICEs won’t be banned from EU until 2035, Paris Climate accords goals are going to be missed by huge margins, oil companies posting record profits. You’ve got to have something that “oh fuck”s everybody out of driving their car, cancels their international travel plans, and encourages as many of us as possible to switch to studying STEM. We basically need a global “Pearl Harbor”—the type of event that warped US around seemingly single minded war effort—except it’s not a war against fellow man, and it’s planet scale. Otherwise we lose.