The Dice are Stacked Against Humanity
Posted: May 9, 2011 Filed under: regular | Tags: carl sagan, Counter Currents, Environment, Noam Chomsky, Opinion Leave a comment »The Dice Are Stacked Against Humanity
By Noam Chomsky
09 May, 2011
From http://www.countercurrents.org/chomsky090511.htm
I’ll begin with an interesting debate that took place some years ago between Carl Sagan, the well-known astrophysicist, and Ernst Mayr, the grand old man of American biology. They were debating the possibility of finding intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. And Sagan, speaking from the point of view of an astrophysicist, pointed out that there are innumerable planets just like ours. There is no reason they shouldn’t have developed intelligent life. Mayr, from the point of view of a biologist, argued that it’s very unlikely that we’ll find any. And his reason was, he said, we have exactly one example: Earth. So let’s take a look at Earth.
David Suzuki: Global economic growth is ‘suicidal’
Posted: March 19, 2011 Filed under: regular | Tags: David Suzuki, Environment Leave a comment »
Canadian environmentalist Dr Suzuki explains why separating economics from ecology is bad news for humans
Last year I spent 30 days on a bus going from St Johns, Newfoundland, on the east coast, all the way across Canada to Victoria in British Columbia on the west coast. I spoke in 41 communities to more than 30,000 people and also taped more than 600 interviews with people across the country telling me what they would do for the environment if they were Prime Minister of Canada. What I learned is that Canadians value nature as a part of who we are; they want it protected and they are willing to pay more taxes to do that. They want Canada to meet its Kyoto obligations. They want efficient, affordable public transportation. They want a carbon tax but they also want government and the corporate community to do their share.
