Last, give speeches at your local civic clubs to encourage them to advocate an opportunities-based science budget. It all starts with the scientific community organising around these issues and telling their story with conviction and passion. Americans can afford it. Australians must control their lust even for the desirable object of a runaway Brain Game. But we can, and ought to, dream about what we might achieve if we tossed away economic management and demanded life for opportunities-based budgets.
Dreams cost nothing.
Harry Robinson is a writer.