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Human fiction is vital to large scale externalizations of real costs in the biosphere (such as pumping wastes and poisons into the atmosphere and oceans).
Human reason is specialized form of story-telling, and thus suspect, like all human fiction. Telling stories is easy, the natural form of information processing and storage in human language.  Making a story an effective myth that people believe, or believe in believing as compulsory fiction, is more difficult.