UPDATE: In the comments, Eric suggested this video, which provides another take on the past 200 years. Really great!

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Though I’m not entirely sure I believe things are quite as bad as this video implies, I think that the short history lesson and the proposed response are right on point.  (But maybe I’m trying to have my cake and eat it too, thinking that any large number of people will make any sort of radical change without hypothetical perils laid before them.)