“Mom, where’s the apple pie? Hey, are those rats in the slow-cooker?”
In 2004, I published “The Galileo Syndrome.” It stated that in the year 2020, our species would finally face the realities of anthropogenic forcing of the radiative balance. The result would be legislation to ameliorate the physical problems from an energized climate while attempting to cope with the social tribulations. The book also declared our leadership would construct a response still fantasizing a society dealing with an economic predicament fixable by technological means, rather than a species-changing environmental setback. In the end, I employed deus ex machina to accentuate the tragedy of discounting our planet’s systems.