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Picture for a moment if you will…

Large spinning saucer shaped spaceships…

The wobbly, erratically flying 49 Ford hubcap looking things

And really big, like several city blocks, or a cool country mile big…

with lights flashing different colors

Hovering over all the capitols of the world…

And suddenly, everywhere at once, on every kind of device…

A message…

On the radio, the television, via text messages, in chat rooms, streaming via netfix, on the web-tubes,

and yes, if you pick up that land line that’s ringing you’ll hear it there too…

“Humans of Earth be warned!”

“The future of your world is in danger!”

“You are at critical levels of carbon in your atmosphere.”

“If you fail to reduce your carbon emissions now…”

“Life on your planet will be destroyed!”

“You have been warned!”

“And oh by the way here’s cures for several cancers, hundreds of other diseases and a technology that turns sunlight directly into electricity.”

And then, just like that…

they were gone.

Would humanity take seriously the words of these mysterious alien visitors?

With their superior technology, and generous sharing of cures to human misfortune?…

It seems plausible that humans might take such a warning seriously…

But then…

why is it that they don’t heed the advice of earth scientists?

Who have made the same warnings, backed by evidence mind you, cured many cancers, ended a thousand human diseases,