Are We Too Stupid To Survive?

We rather grandly call our species Homo sapiens: 'wise man'.

Wise man? What a joke. Certainly we're clever, imaginative, and inventive. But wise...?

The 21st century will be a make-or-break one for our species. Either we'll read the writing on the wall (Writ large by our finest minds) and have the wisdom to head off pending disaster, or continue staring stupidly into the on-coming headlights until it's too late.

Climate change, ocean acidification, nitrogen pollution, mass extinction, unsustainable economic growth, and environmental collapse. They're all bullets with our name on them. They've been clearly identified, we even have potential solutions laid out for us, but we refuse to change our ways. We fear change, especially those of us who have a vested interest in business-as-usual.

But if we carry on the way we are, there can be no more "business-as-usual".

Are we too stupid to survive?