Thanks for pointing to that, I&#x27;m always baffled at how few people fail to acknowledge the most &quot;basic&quot; complexities of meteorological reality.<p>I have the suspicion that our inherent bias for linear thinking is the culprit here.<p>Some things <i>can&#x27;t ever</i> be grasped intuitively and as long as education doesn&#x27;t at least catch up with our propensity towards boundless optimism our and many more species are essentially doomed.<p>That said, it needs <i>both</i> for our children to be able to survive - boundless optimism <i>and</i> objective thinking.<p>As much as I am a kid of the 80s I don&#x27;t see capitalism - with all its super exciting promises - being much else than an ever accelerating system to even more short-term
thinking and conscious&#x2F;subconscious ignorance at this point.<p>Yes, it might be less comfortable but we need to <i>change now</i> - <i>each</i> one of us - to save what we have inherited.<p>Talk with people, teach them, be nice and understanding but tell them that it&#x27;s all in their hands - even if that&#x27;s a scary thought!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Stanford_marshmallow_experiment" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Stanford_marshmallow_experim...</a>