Your argument doesn't make much sense. Short term changes in Gaza/Ukraine/PFAS proliferation will all have very little effect on the current daily lives of mos

Your argument doesn't make much sense. Short term changes in Gaza/Ukraine/PFAS proliferation will all have very little effect on the current daily lives of most Americans. But those same short terms changes in all of the above will have massive changes in the future of most Americans. E.g., if public pressure had prevented the U.S. from invading Iraq on March 20th, 2003, not much would have changed for Americans on March 21st, 2003. But by the end of the war, that would be over $1 trillion that would have been spent differently by the U.S. government. You apparently like statistical estimates-- tell me how much of that $1 trillion you estimate would have gone to research grants for PFAS proliferation risks and/or alternative technologies over a 20-year period. And that's just the opportunity cost. With Gaza and Ukraine there is further escalation of weapons use and drone tech, damage to the Chernobyl sarcophagus, potential use of tactical nukes, endless appetite for incorporating AI into war and mass surveillance... the list goes on and on. It just cannot be overstated how wrong it is to blithely assume that focus on current events is somehow short term thinking while armchair quarterbacking PFAS proliferation 100,000 generations into the future is somehow more consequential and erudite. Edit: change "stated" to "overstated" (hehe)