Why are we still doing for oil anyways?! We are about to kill everyone on the planet with our fossil fuel addiction.
Furthermore, roughly half of Americans don't believe this is even a problem, and don't care about what any scientists tell them, because their religious leaders and favorite politicians tell them otherwise.
Fully agree. This is not an issue where we just have to hope that one day someone in charge will fix it.
No, we wouldn't, nor should we. The reason is democracy: if the people in that space station have a democratic government, and more than half of them vote for leaders who promise them they can keep their shooting range, no matter how dangerous, well then everyone else just has to live with it.
Hopefully, it's obvious here that democracy only really works when the citizens are smart enough to use it well. The problem is that, in many cases, they just aren't, which is what we're seeing now.
Do you use electricity?
Do you own anything plastic?
What about metal?
I think you'll find if you ask yourself these questions you will find that the answer to your rhetorical question was within you all along!
Mr Einstein would be so disappointed.
In other news, Americans stopped buying sedans because they want bigger vehicles.