They were well aware of the lesson of the Easter Island. Documents prove inumerous thesis and even television documentaries about the demise of Rapa-Nui's civilization, which was incapable of creating a sustainable economy before the collapse of the island's ecosystem, and only survived for a period of time thanks to cannibalism. To understand the general public's dismissal of the subject one has to do more than gather the recurrent denial aspect of mankind. One has to understand the value of entertainment in this society. Such lessons were only useful as long as they were entertaining. Movies were created showing the weather climate changes, the political war madness or the terrible food diet of inhabitants. Human tragedy, before really happening, didn't cause a wide change of behaviors, but rather a simple and wealthy change of entertainment thematics.
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"Green people" were named those who spent more time concerning whales than price stocks. They preached about the cost of unbalancing an ecosystem so precious because unique as the Earth's; "Peak Oilers" were the group of people who looked upon the demise of global economy; "Jihadists" were the fundamentalist religious who proclaimed that the war to end all wars was about to come; "Warmers" were the ones who predicted the melting of the ice caps and subsequent rise of the oceans. Interestingly enough, every nightmare Man has passed through in the decisive century was well theorized or else rigorously romanticized in dystopian science-fictions. But no science document or dystopia could ever grasp the scope and diversity of situations and lessons Man had to go through. The 21st century poem became a worldwide anthem:
Acid waters to drink,
Hurricanes to breathe,
Hordes to die
Waves to lay,
Hell on earth,
Purgatory on the seas
Even the atheists pray.
Oh tender!
Oh joy!
Small glimpses for you
Confined is even love.
Threaded we have
On our dreams
But not softly.
In Creative Economics 101, chapter two.
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