@cicerone imposter,
I covered the point of curiosity. If you read back you will see I did.
I know plenty of humans who have very little interest in our environment, history, geology, paleontology, our universe, and evolution.
I understand the advantages I asked
you about when there's a career involved. But there's a great deal of science in which the practitioners involved don't insist we are kept up to date with it.
Why is this subject so special? Suppose the satisfaction of human curiosity had been given over to the Biblical version, or other creation myths, for the precise reason that not to do drives everybody mad. Attenborough looks a bit out of it to me.