Dath ilan, Gregoria. The average Intelligence of everybody involved in this process is 16, possibly 17. They remember learning about cooperation-defection-dilemmas when they were very young.
They are surrounded by complicated, powerful machines that they remember how to operate, that they know can produce a lot of stuff, but only if multiple people are operating them and only if they don't get wrecked by violence.
As soon as everybody visualizes the awful outcome from what Gregoria is describing, they will all, automatically, because they do remember learning about cooperation-defection-dilemmas as children, ask themselves in unison: "Can we do something else which is not that, and end up not there?"