You are spot on. However, I see Europe following suit with some of this.
All thru history any fundamental shift in a paradigm causing us as an entire species to rethink our place in the universe has been met with heavy opposition, often violent.
Takes time for people to realize this is not the end of the world, just the end of a particular viewpoint of our place in it.
This is not unlike the virulent opposition to the heliocentric model of our solar system.
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Wait til these folks get a load of string theory. It's gonna drive them nuts.
The point I was trying to make was that these things have consequences (good and bad).