Only when you, yourself, can acquire conscious awareness of cognitive intellectual awareness that you, yourself, can come holding as quality of conscious awareness of cognitive awareness for you to significantly and to sufficiently answer your own questions that you “care enough” to ask in earthly reality survival order for you, along with all of us, can come to recognize and to realize that we, all socially living together on this Planet Earth, presently hold no KNOWLEDGE AWARENESS of that which we are presently doing to destroy present Humankind survival socio-political worthy and virtuous Earthly Planet socio-political sanity order.
The word consequences means the outcome of something. I figured out the meaning by looking at what Sergeant Major says, “‘I warn you of the consequences.” He is warning Mr. White of the outcome of what might happen if they make the wishes.