Telling it like it is
Nov. 30th, 2005 12:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jaunthie"There are serious problems that derive from the realities of the external world: climate change, loss of biological diversity, new and re-emerging diseases, and more. Many of these threats are not yet immediate, yet their non-linear character is such that we need to be acting today. And we have no evolutionary experience of acting on behalf of a distant future; we even lack basic understanding of important aspects of our own institutions and societies.
Sadly, for many, the response is to retreat from complexity and difficulty by embracing the darkness of fundamentalist unreason."
--Lord May of Oxford, President of the Royal Society, the United Kingdom's national academy of science
Good for him. It's up to each and every one of us to promote and support modern science, scientific standards, sound logic, and unbiased factual analysis. We can't afford not to speak up.
Sadly, for many, the response is to retreat from complexity and difficulty by embracing the darkness of fundamentalist unreason."
--Lord May of Oxford, President of the Royal Society, the United Kingdom's national academy of science
Good for him. It's up to each and every one of us to promote and support modern science, scientific standards, sound logic, and unbiased factual analysis. We can't afford not to speak up.
