BlippyTheWonderSlug, 
Dunno, man.
Does no one remember what happened just 100 short years ago? We have newspapers, books, and movies to help us remember.
You can't sneeze in Germany without spattering a Holocaust Memorial, but even here, people are becoming hateful idiots.
sigh
I guess the wheel turns, and fascist religious autocracy's turn is up next in the "western world."
Again.
Because people, in general, are idiots who refuse to learn.
BlippyTheWonderSlug, The best thing we could do for the environment, in general, would be [REDACTED].
And how fucked up is it that I can't say [REDACTED] without serious repurcussions?