The problem here is that over 80% of the people on the bus have completely specialized personalities, education, and experiences supporting an absolute minimal retention of generalized knowledge and awareness. To be blunt, we have become do-do birds. This dodo bird majority is all very good at preening and speaking and agreeing with each other, but when it really comes down to it, very few of them have any ability to respond to changing circumstances. They have never needed to do so before... and their experience tells them that what they need to do is continue to be able to say what they have been told to say and believe what they think others believe, because this will stabilize their position and success. It's not just conformism, at this point, this is what patriotism and civilized behavior looks like, because civilization has advanced to such an abstract state that only true and radically conformist behaviors signify the civilized mind.

It is already too late. For those few of us eccentric and perspective-gifted, the preening, crooning dodo-birds literally run the bus. Every time there is a solution proposed, they understand, at best, about half of the ideas proposed, and will, at best, pick the solution they best understand will best solve the issue, which, typically, is the solution which is only 50% effective, and then they will arrive at a consensus that preserves the bare essential 10% of the main idea required for it to work, and so, a solution that delivers 5% winds up being the productive outcome of any crisis, and so, progress, at best, stagnates. We have reached this state in our evolution.

Worse, the politik-speak and corpo-crony ecological landscape demands that all crises which are politically convenient happen, are politely apologized for, and then repurposed into wealth generating golden ages. School shootings lead to educational system reform. Forest fires to massive insurance bailout. Water shortages become water credits and necessary taxes. Insecure election systems repurposed to tighten party control. Ecological disasters create jobs.
At this point, only outright theft remains effective at decimating the rise of gezeigtkraft tailored "We are With You" facades servicing potentially millions of unproductive drones that move paperwork around and speak, to the detriment of all real laboring people and all original wealth generation, which must now necessarily supplant the continual inflation created by the leaky bucket of derivative and speculative wealth. We feed the world, but the world cannot feed itself.

Who is the we? do you think the driver of the bus isn't armed? At best, this is a call to resist, a crooning do-do bird cry of fear about a crisis which has already been landed. The next generation wont be coming, poorly chosen codon sites and toxic RNA markers have already promised that. And to what would you raise them, to what toast of the future? For better or worse, the world is a limited resource system. We broke that cycle with the haber-bosch process, and then we perpetuated the unsustainable explosion with the united states navy and the global mercantile exchange for the better part of 6 decades. It won't continue, can't continue, and when it ends, we will be in one of two three positions and staring The Great Filter right in the face and at our own cosmic doorstep. One, we will go back to the stone age and the planet will eventually stabilize despite the nutrient imbalance, climate(in this respect i refer to nature only, as in the oceans and the wild places of the land, not the SKY, which we are as ants concerning, and to which volcanic contributions massively outpace mankind's worst intentions). By all means change your life, your lifestyle, and your habits, but unless you are willing to live according to squalid and primitive standards, even your most ecologically sensitive demands are still laughably unsustainable according to the alchemical economics used in real industry. Your vegan foods will still demand exemplar fertilizer production, your modern ecologically friendly homes and vehicles will still demand rare earth elements and today's entrepreneurs are not too enthralled by the prospect of being asked to produce environmentally friendly transport which is still J. D Power safety rated. As a farmer, as a member of a multi generational farming family, who know the reality, we will tell you- one must either till or spray, or sacrifice all economically profitable yields.

Two, option two, we continue on our present trend and earn our darwin award, as we continue to open more of pandoras presents to us and discover ever yet more convenient and off-the-shelf assimilable ways to exterminate each other. Give them another 20 years or so and friendly terrorists turned walter white will have google access to research clearly showing how to make something like Bayer's  SmartStax Pro, but which works on you, instead. The academic do-dos say this would never happen, as they all have integrity, but it only takes ONE person to publish to steal the glory, and the temptation of glory is too great for the demands of such outdated notions as self-censorship, because your name will live forever, even when it doesn't.

Option three, we swerve and go off the opposite bank altogether, which leads to an endless river, and begin a luddite revolution to demand technocratic and principled systems for our own survival, and kick all advanced research and science offworld along with everything not necessary for life, and return earth to being a planet purely concerned with the sustaining of life itself, where man lives in enclaves, not scattered across the landscape, and spends his time working offworld. To accomplish this, however, we may very well require everyone to agree to work together, and also the majority to support this direction, something which, for the reasons stated above, simply is not going to happen.

As a result, here is what is going to happen- to sustain my species, I am going to swerve this bus off the road. And I will be happy to take you on and do war with you if you try to stop me. But, should the vast majority of the less talented and more opinionated ones suddenly die off, I will be happy to assist in a last-ditch effort to drive off the other bank. To me, it doesn't very well matter, as long as we get off this damn road to nowhere.