Perfectibilists [closed]

Someone once said "If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." People look at the world and see crime. They see poverty. They see ignorance. They see pollution. Mostly they see pain and fear. So some people try to make it right. People with wealth, fame and power. They champion a new, better world. The problem? Their new world is nothing more than a return to an old world. A world where those people felt more comfortable but had the same new problems wearing old clothes. There is no new steel, just rust painted over. While the tide was out these people swept the beaches clean and claimed victory. Until the sea returned with a vengeance. But what if. What if a particularly-defiant group of powerful people found themselves gathered around the same table staring down the same global problems and REFUSED to be traditional? What if they decided to either push back the land or the sea or both to make space for something entirely new.