Inventiveness

We can put men on the moon, create passenger jets that whizz around the world. We can develop television and mobile phone networks. We can make The Internet and we can invent penicillin and microwaves and hovercrafts and huge combine harvesters. We can make tunnels under The English Channel and we can build New York City. We can make films like "Star Wars" and "Toy Story". We can write and print thousands of books each year. We can build submarines and atomic bombs and pizzas. We can take all of the fish out of the seas and destroy The Amazon rainforest. We can undertake heart transplants. We can put 1.2 billion motor vehicles on the world's roads and even invent self-driving cars. We can mine the planet's minerals and build massive oil tankers and huge passenger liners and superyachts but in spite of all of this it seems...

We can't oblige all food manufacturers to use packaging that is easy to recycle and we cannot stamp out unwanted phone calls from ruthless scammers and we cannot bring an end to homelessness. We cannot stop African babies dying from diarrhoea and we can't ensure that our elderly people are looked after and cared for by right - regardless of how much money they have in the bank.

Go figure.