yes, this year the debate is about causation. next year it will be about economic feasibility the year after that they will start quoting Zeno's paradox and pointing at the impossibility of change.

ultimately scientists debate nested interests stall.

I am Ricardo Montalban.

the cables would never have even been put in the ground without government intervention in the granting of utility easements. the cable companies would have to either buy strips of land or dots of land and air rights as would the electric providers, the phone companies, the gas companies, water and sewage providers. it would take only one holdout to prevent utility penetration into a neighborhood.

There are assumptions you are making that are not true. 1. Smart does not equal Wealthy 2. Statistically there is a rise in "smart" people's offspring. Speaking on behalf of smart people in "modern" America, I see very few really intelligent people anywhere. Whether they're rich or poor makes no difference. If a split were to occur, it would be between the truly intelligent and the vastly moronic and would only involve socio-economic disparity coincidentally.