2460. cimate reaction like synchronized swimming. Con we do better?

quoting

In failing to address climate
change ... all the forces of
willful blindness come
together like synchronized
swimmers in a spectacular
water ballet."

Margaret Heffernan,

Willful Blindness (2011)

As a species, are we smart enough to have migrated with climate, and to invent tech, but not smart enough to get out of the mess we have created? For example, will the shift from a mechanical to a digital sense of the world make for a significant difference in the way we approach the near future? To see the future as based on new code might be a lot easier than replacing all the machinery.