Imagine there was a beautiful planet.
Imagine it was inhabited by billions of sentient beings.
Imagine the most technologically advanced of those beings was in the process of poisoning that planet for everyone.
Imagine that all life was at risk.
Imagine that those most technologically advanced beings were, as T.S. Eliot once put it, too
distracted from distraction by distraction
to do anything about it.
Imagine those most technologically advanced beings were even putting the survival of their own species at risk.
Imagine time was running out.
Imagine those most technologically advanced beings were actually making things worse, not better.
Imagine.
The horror.