It's most illustrative that this lecture was given to future actuaries. Branches of society that have to concern themselves with the future are already well adv

It's most illustrative that this lecture was given to future actuaries. Branches of society that have to concern themselves with the future are already well advanced in making preparations for it. For example, a friend who is a town planner has to make sure that all new infrastructure takes expected sea level rises into account - even as her political masters deny global warming exists. Meanwhile, mass society still can't even come to terms with the fact that many well respected mavens predicted that the Iraq War would be a disaster, that there would be a housing crash and that banks were incentivized to be corrupt and loot the economy. What hope for anti-biotics misuse, over-dependence on synthetic fertilizers and civilization surviving the anthropocene?