We still believe science is the solution because we quickly came up with a vaccine. The twin facts that half of Americans--who have free, ready access to the vaccine--haven't gotten it, while a vast swath of the so-called third world remains unvaccinated because they lack access, spotlights our essential problem: science can't save us from ourselves...but we are clinging to that belief. Bezos believes, delusionally, he's going to build a colony in space to preserve humanity. Really. And he was the VALEDICTORIAN of his high school and is the WORLD'S RICHEST PERSON. So--yeah, it's not looking hopeful. Many of us are idiots, many others lives in a daze. Then there are the vicious, self-serving oil barons who've known all along how this would end.