possessing the interest even to try. Ennui + rising temps (and seas) now limn obvious irreversible consequences ... consequences which rise exponentially within the short time left to--just possibly--evade the worst scenarios.
(Clearly, few give a shit about even That.) Shall Agent Orange--its continuing after-effects: where we dropped the many kilotons--become, by default: Soylent Orange?)

We techno-initiated see jillions of Possibilities available; meanwhile the techno-illiterate (amidst the post-literate majority) veg-out on sports, visual consciousness-eaters and the lure of The Couch, n'est ce pȃs?
Ergo, the complexity and detail-Work! required to ponder effectively any major change in Tax-bases: runs up against disinterest and all that incompetence, thus incomprehension.
tl;dr: We have neither the talent nor motivation ... even to rescue The Nest! Throw in the greed-derangement inseparable from all aspects of growing up under the virulent ethics-free Vulture-capitalism? and

and..