“I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust.”
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Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.
Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst.
We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.