Sometimes being right at the wrong time is better. Maybe we are only alive today because so many of our parents predicted Nuclear Armageddon and acted to preven

Sometimes being right at the wrong time is better. Maybe we are only alive today because so many of our parents predicted Nuclear Armageddon and acted to prevent it? It always depends. Every situation is different and it always boils down to a risk assessment. We have to make a collective call on whether the risks of doing nothing outweigh the benefits. Unfortunately we can't rely on our current obsession: "the markets" to make an accurate risk assessment for us. Markets and oligarchies (and darwinism for that matter) operate within established patterns. They optimize and specialise for short term success. It takes external pressures to implement transformative change. That external pressure will either be uncomfortably "communist" or the "creative destruction" of a global bloodletting that destroys most of our ecosystems.