I agree we shouldn't be so hasty assess the situation. The importance of time and real understanding of the problems at hand is crucial regardless of our capitalist technocracy tending to discourage action without immediate effect. Zeynep Tufecki has really good talk on the importance of time in enacting social change (https://www.ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_how_the_internet_has_made_social_change_easy_to_organize_hard_to_win). Her other TED talks are fantastic too (I''m a bit of a TED talk skeptic but these are good ;D)