Science V. Capital
From his Wikipedia page: Jason Edward Hickel is an anthropologist and professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Hickel’s research and writing focuses on economic anthropology and development, and is particularly opposed to capitalism, neocolonialism, as well as economic growth as a measure of human development.
What Hickel says at left is undoubtedly true. What makes this interesting is that human civilization is now threatened with extinction, specifically because of his claim, i.e., that our society is willing to ignore science when capital is at stake.
How far is humankind willing to go before it puts science in charge of policymaking when it comes to staving off catastrophe? Nobody knows.
Most of our senior scientists in the modern age agree with Hawking here, but, remarkably, not all.
It would be great to see the United States make substantial investments in climate change mitigation, and certainly the Inflation Reduction Act is an excellent start here.
I often quote Pavlovitz; he is a true humanitarian, and an extremely insightful human being.
British particle physicist Brian Cox is one of those incredibly bright fellows who doesn’t mind being in the public eye, and making observations that transcend science itself.
Gotta give this map-maker credit. Obviously, none of this is ever going to happen, but the sentiment here is spot-on.
I don’t know exactly what percentage of Canadians feel the same way this guy does, but I bet it’s very close to 100.
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This from a reader. My response:
As a few brave congressional Republicans stay the course and maintain their integrity under the most ferocious opposition from Donald Trump, all the rest of the civilized world can say is well done.
