I thought Victorinox too , they are ubiquitous , though not always an apt comparison for locking folders . <| sep |> Maybe so , but the truly serious negative effects of global warming aren ' t going to happen for hundreds of years Hawking gave us 1000 years left , if I ' m remembering correctly , so why should the current population bother worrying about something that won ' t even happen in their lifetimes ? The answer to this life extension technology to lengthen our lifetimes and therefore the period of time we care about . Hey , it ' s easier than somehow finding a way to get rid of our tendency to procrastinate without reevolving the species or brainwashing everybody No serious progress is going to be made until humanity is staring extinction in the face . Or we become capable of faking the appearance of extinctionlevel conditions enough to convince people but without anybody actually dying and this is only if my life extension idea doesn ' t work that we ' d need this