And that's the issue isn't it? It's not readily apparent and the instant it is, we're essentially beyond hope of a fix.

I remember an argument I got into a while back, essentially it went

"They've been saying we'll be out of oil in 10 years for 30 years."

"They'll eventually be right, unless you think we have infinite oil."

"We can worry about it when it happens then."

Being proactive is hard, but surely it'd still be less effort than being reactive here?