LogFAQs > #972956340

If I were in charge right now, or given this decision for everyone, I'd ask them what we get for a one-time deal, not as a perpetual thing. Since the world is in the grip of a bunch of old men, too many of them being 80+ or close to it, the past couple decades have told me exactly how things would play out.

First they'd say no. Then they'd try to negotiate for minorities in exchange for the fuels, etc. Then they would turn around and try to convince the general masses that the aliens are the enemy! And your best friend, neighbor, or dog could be one of them. The general masses would, sadly, eat it up, with too many of us arguing with one another about whether or not what was said and done had actually been said and done despite the exhaustive level of documentation. People will die needlessly, humanity would get none of the solutions, and then aliens would sigh before putting yet another tally mark under "Self-Destructive Humans."