The rotational North Pole is moving east at 14 cm per year
The laws of unintended consequences were never more evident than implicit in global climate change, a result of human activity.  We always intended to make the world better, at least that&#x27;s what we constantly said we were trying to do.<p>We should be warned based on history.  All actions and decisions have numerous and unpredictable outcomes, more than we ever realize at the time.  It&#x27;s a curious thing that we seem not to remember this lesson, endlessly repeating the process on each iteration.  Rush headlong into an idea, and then spend decades or centuries repairing the damage.<p>Despite having evolution&#x27;s best brain, and the ability to do otherwise, we humans have been on the whole poor long-term planners, we have failed to see the big picture.  Or more to the point we don&#x27;t heed those among us who urge us to consider the implications of our behavior, preferring the expedient until we hit a wall.<p>The article&#x27;s conclusion is not a surprise, all the clues are converging toward the revelation that human cleverness will be our undoing, unless we learn to push our problem-solving abilities to their full capability, setting aside our usual short view for the possibility of continued existence.<p>So what do we surmise are the odds world-wide leadership of that caliber will arise?  One guess is as good as any other.