Ignoring Reality

What Aldous Huxley said here is absolutely true, and it applies so broadly across human society.

Most obviously, we have environmental collapse in general and climate change in particular.  The longer we delay our efforts to decarbonize our energy and transportation sectors, the higher the price we will ultimately pay.

Unfortunately, most Americans aren’t really on board here, otherwise a plurality of voters wouldn’t have elected a president who immediately withdrew the United States from the Paris Climate Accord, abandoning the world in this existential struggle for survival.