As we watch the progress of the Webb telescope flitting a mile every five seconds through space, it's easy to relax and wonder at the ingenuity of the scientists and engineers who designed and built this incredible machine which will unlock the secrets of the universe. If it gets the opportunity! The ice caps and glaciers are melting faster than expected. Extreme weather conditions are accelerating. The permafrost over vast stretches is melting, releasing more CO2 that has been released in over two hundred years. Pandemics are becoming the norm. The rain forests are in retreat. Nature is reeling, losing much of its diversity and richness as humans slash, burn and destroy to secure the temporary survival of more of its species. It's already too late. We should have begun to act twenty years ago. Now it's the survival of those who have the means. Those who live on the margins without clean water or food will die. A million deaths out of seven billion will be a drop in the bucket. Is it better to live in ignorance? We are getting used to lies. Lies protect us from the truth. We didn't need vaccines. Did we? We didn't need to love or care for the earth which gave us life? Did we?