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Seeing as how things are currently going, I find Mr. Hawking's remark very reasonable. It seems that most warnings like this fall upon deaf ears, mainly because people don't like to change their daily lives; habitual living can be quite comfortable.
Take H.G. Wells for exaple. He predicted tanks being employed to end trench warfare, planes being used in war to control the sky, and the bombing of london, two to twenty-five years early with adaquate warnings to his readers. Their response, of course, was laughter. He was so furious that he later said his epitaph should read "God damn you people; I told you so."
The best thing we can do is to see a problem for what it is (no bullshit), find ways to fix it, attempt to fix it, and then learn from our mistakes. Then we can grow. Simply ignoring a problem tends to be a bad idea.
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