"Our leaders are running scared from the mess they’ve made of the world, and the future."

Is this the fault of the leaders or is it the fault of each one of us? Have we colluded in the results that we've produced? Who are the leaders? Who selected them?

Everything that is occurring right now was so predictable. We've stuck our collective heads in the ground in the futile hope that all the ills would vanish.

Here in the States Philip Slater in the early 70s coined the "toilet assumption" as a phrase to describe our penchant for believing that by ignoring our problems by flushing would make them disappear. What gets flushed out if site always emerges somewhere.

He, also commented in the "The Pursuit of Loneliness" that we are a nation of people that have a propensity for moving away or migrating away from our problems with each other. Immigration and open space provided the illusion of greener pastures. Haven't we simply run out of space both physically as in geography and "time" amplified by technology? Heading to Mars anyone?

This, also reminds:

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. (Julius Caesar, Act 1, scene 2, 135–141).