The problem with us human beings is that we are able to do pretty
much what we want. What we can´t do as individuals, we can do as
a part of a greater number of people, in the end as a members of the
human race. But our Achilles heel is the fact, that we have a tremendous
lack of will.

If we would want to, we could fight global warming and lessen it´s
impact on the planet; we could bring clean water, basic education,
healtcare and adequate food to all human beings; we could damn well
reach the stars.

But we don´t. Except in our rhetoric; in the real life we are doing a
excellent job of making a mess of this planet and maybe getting
ourselves extinct in the process. And all because we are shortsighted optimists, who see imaginary weapons of mass destruction hidden in
every country we dislike, but don´t see the greater threats: the famines, disease epidemics, destruction of nature, oppression of basic human
rights in countries we like. And enough of us always think that there´s
do need to worry, that everything will turn out allright; the cavalry will
arrive to save us, a miracle will happen, or that all is a delusion or a
conspiracy to trick the simpleminded, like some US senators claim the
global warming to be.

In the end, we are a suicidal race.