In science fiction the reader is often given a glimpse of present reality from an imagined future perspective.
The first panel in this story reminded my both of the optimism of the atomic era, and the growing recognition that something was wrong with the way we were using oil.
It was an era of Mutually Assured Destruction (M.A.D.) presented as a cost effective way to secure peace. The young generation enjoyed the benefits of a reasonable economy, and boomed beyond their borders in supersonic aircraft. The bust of AIDS, famine, and the global cost of this frenzied activity by a small minority of it’s population was yet to hit.
If you could go back in time and change one thing in order to save the world of today, what would it be?
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I would go back to 1960 and teach youngsters about the beauty of nature and our holy duty as humans to work with it and co-exist with the planet. Basically the XR message but 60 years ago. Might have worked, but we know human nature.