The conainers are just there to "educate" us - so the local government says.
When we were evolving as hunter gathers, perhaps it would not have been useful to sit by the cave fire and worry about what might be happening in ten years time. You might have missed the best dinner, or become dinner for a passing cave bear. Consequently it does not seem we are well adapted to worry about the future. Most people think our planet is indestructable, but they thought that about the Titanic too.
I can't help thinking of Blind Willie Johnson
God Moves On the Water
In the year of nineteen hundred and twelve,
April the thirteenth day,
When the great Titanic hit an iceberg
Well, the people had to run and pray.
When the great Titanic was sinkin' down,
Well, they threw lifeboats down,
Cryin', "Save the women and children
We have to let the men drown."
Cap'n Smith was sleeping,
He thought he was tired;
Well, he woke up in a great fright
As many gunshots were fired.
He was warned by a freighter
But the Captain did not take heed
Instead of cutting engines
He ran with greater speed.
Thomas Andrews a mighty man
Thinks he built a ship he understands
Name of the game, in the end
It's not in our hands
The story of the shipwreck
Is almost too sad to tell
One thousand,six hundred
Went down forever to dwell
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