- Nuclear war: averted by MAD? - Peak Oil: happened. EV's are mitigating the consequences. - Ozone hole: treaties banning the world-wide production of CFCs so

- Nuclear war: averted by MAD? - Peak Oil: happened. EV's are mitigating the consequences. - Ozone hole: treaties banning the world-wide production of CFCs solved the problem. - Y2K Problem: billions of dollars were spent fixing that problem. We did such a great job fixing that problem there are now a bunch of deniers stating the problem never existed in the first place! See a pattern here? These problems just didn't up and solve themselves. We took action and solved them. Since there's no point dwelling on old problems we move on to new problems to solve. That process is otherwise known as advancement.