I'll be very quick.
There is a lot of documentation on the problems of scientific literacy. We have civil servants gathering together with six or seven people who are asked to make multi-billion dollar investments in very complicated scientific situations. It's a really big problem in western democracies. With no disrespect to the politicians at all, these are really complicated issues. You have to make big decisions about these kinds of things.
We don't systematically go about making sure that the politicians and civil servants have the necessary background. It's ironic, because I also see a problem where we then default it onto expert committees that tend to be self-preferential and very averse to risk. They tend to support the work they're already doing—