“Out of sight, out of mind. That’s the way most of us approach long term problems. A vicious puma rushing toward us gets our attention right away, but worrying about something that might not happen for a decade or more? Yeah, we’ll get back to you on that. The mindset is best captured by the bumper sticker that says, ‘How can I be overdrawn? I still have checks!’ We can’t see aquifers, so the problem is invisible to us. We turn on the faucet; water comes out. End of story.”
“Somehow, humans have to train themselves to think about long term problems.”
I like the forlorn sound of that initial ‘somehow’ positioned all alone with a comma, followed by ‘humans’ which number 7 Billion. So, not very likely, evidently.
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“Out of sight, out of mind. That’s the way most of us approach long term problems. A vicious puma rushing toward us gets our attention right away, but worrying about something that might not happen for a decade or more? Yeah, we’ll get back to you on that. The mindset is best captured by the bumper sticker that says, ‘How can I be overdrawn? I still have checks!’ We can’t see aquifers, so the problem is invisible to us. We turn on the faucet; water comes out. End of story.”
“Somehow, humans have to train themselves to think about long term problems.”
I like the forlorn sound of that initial ‘somehow’ positioned all alone with a comma, followed by ‘humans’ which number 7 Billion. So, not very likely, evidently.