Imagine if we prepared for Covid back during influenza. Also we should have realize smoking is bad for you.
We did prepare, and other than some people who just contrarians who refuse to care about anyone else the general population did follow directions for the most part and we were able to avoid our health care systems completely collapsing.
If you didn’t know, there have always been members of society that actively work against any kind of communal inconvenience that is for the greater good. During the (misnamed) Spanish Flu epidemic there were anti-maskers and people who intentionally undermined any public heath initiatives.
I think what we lack is the understanding that just knowing the right thing to do doesn’t make it happen, individually or collectively. Because if you look at any of the issues we face you can find people talking about it a hundred, three hundred, a thousand years ago, but it’s like the solutions only get traction under some special lightning in a bottle circumstances. So you have to keep up the consciousness and the effort and especially creative inspiring things, and know that the failures are to be expected and the successes are so rare they need to be celebrated even when they are imperfect.
Well said. What people fail to understand is that simply telling people how they should act is futile. You need to alter the conditions that cause people to develop dysfunctional social behaviors in the first place.
We never had it, if we did the Romen Empire would be around and WW2 wouldn’t exist
Wee bit more complex than that usually.
You mean not dismantle the NSC stations set up in Wuhan specifically made to avoid plagues such as COVID?
Was it ever there?
Dude we only survive because we don’t look ahead. Imagine how bleak things would be if we couldn’t forget about the inevitable heat death of the universe, the sun expanding, and the thousand other inevitable world enders between here then then.
Now to drink so I can forget. 😅
That is 100,000,000,000 years from now. I’m talking about the next 100 years.
I didn’t explain well I feel.
Too much prescience causes anxiety which people shy away from. It takes maturity and courage to look at the future, particularly if it’s an inconvenient one. And yes, climate change is perfect example.
I think you are letting propaganda freak you out. Climate change isn’t going to kill us all tomorrow. Even if it becomes some how majority disastrous it is unlikely to wipe out all humans. We need to think about the future and get our heads out of the sand.
Just to be clear, you definitely shouldn’t be worrying about climate change or any other overly hyped up issue. Your life is short and all you can do is be the best person you can. If you care about the environment go do so.e good for the world. Don’t spend time worrying.
Thanks for perfectly illustrating my point 👍
We’ve never had it
Our brains are physiologically wired for the short term. In the place we came from, there was no long term. The world before society was brutal. We are still running on that hardware.
Ok and when in your opinion has it been different? Some things just aren’t so easily predictable and other things are predictable but people do not care because it mainly effects future generations and not them.
Always has been like that, always will be
