Maybe they emphasise “children” to encourage more of the current adult generation to sacrifice themselves. And to manage expectations of when the benefits arise.

Looks a wee bit like Calculon, facially at least; a bit skinnier in the torso.

Similar just the impact of dust over a large enough distance.

Try going up to the top of, say, a 50 storey building in a moderately polluted city during a fairly still, warm, dry spell of weather and look down at the ground.

It’ll likely look a lot more dusty than from street level.

Urgh, when you forgot to check the fool-performance charateristic curve on the datasheet and it was on a log scale.

I dont know, when most people were children they might believe their parents like that. Some of them grow up and develop minds of their own and critical thinking but others seem not to. Maybe it gets harder to grow up, the longer you spend as a child.

Or maybe you’re right and it’s an intrinsic part of human diversity - maybe the tribe has always needed some sheeple - so our genes might always create some.

A bit of healthy scientific skepticism or logical reasoning with some skills to evaluate sources of evidence and biases help with both understanding quoted stats, and liars and the ill-informed.

It’s a difficult and time consuming skill to learn and use though.

“wired”. lol.