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19 October, 2016 – Episode 589 – This Week in Science
Interview w/ The Director of the Maryland STEM Festival, Thinking Machines, Planet X Influence, Tool Making Monkeys?, Generous Magpies, Visual Fish, Higgs Bison, Soothing Lithium, Genes With Altitude, And Much More…
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We live in the modern world…
The newest age humanity has ever known…
Which is always the case really, whenever people are describing the present…
The dark ages in Europe were a major setback in knowledge,
but most folks living through it probably had no idea there had been a more modern world behind them…
And, as progress pushes forward through every aspect of our lives…
As we automate more processes,
speeding up production…
As we compute larger data sets faster…
As our population grows and the need for a workforce shrinks…
As we fill every open stretch of land with paved roads, carbon copy houses, and coffee franchises…
As we push nature further from our daily lives, and alter the climate upon which nature thrives…
We see the results of our efforts…
Planet-wide warming…
Depleted fishing, hunting, and farming grounds…
Diminished fresh water reserves…
Increased wild fires…
Intense storms and hurricane seasons…
and over one hundred species of plant, insect and animal going extinct every day…
What for? To what end?
Why are we so set on this path, so dedicated to a goal that we cannot even envision how it ends?
…
and what a vision.
No wonder we don’t ask…
how the world will look when we are done destroying it.
The answer of course is that we don’t care because we won’t be here to see it…