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ClimateCrocks.com: Just before his death, Carl Sagan warned us about the perils of a technological society where fewer and fewer people know, or care, what science says.
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Old ppl = Danger!
The biggest threat to science the that scam called religion. Science is the
seeking of the truth about our universe while religions is about obscuring
the truth.
A PSA, please be skeptical of things.
Sagan’s Warning. A prophecy concerning science and society and truer words
were never spoken.
+Deckard Cain +YogaFire +Yvigny Goncharov abiogenesis and evolution are
theories trying to explain how we came by. Abiogenesis explains nonlife to
life, evolution explains non intelligent to intelligent.
All trying to prove origin of life. Abiogenesis has never been repeated.
Evolution , because of time needed to observe, has also never been
observed. And cannot be repeated, even with organisms with very short
lifespan, like fruitfly.
So I become a skeptic of the status quo and an automatic idiot.
We couldn’t agree more with Carl Sagan – it’s vital that people understand
the bases of our civilisation: #science and #technology.
And our aim is to be a part of that!
https://publons.com/about/
Carl Sagan and Government_ Charlie Rose.wmv
#government #politics #policy #evidence #skepticism
be skeptic about anything about abiogenesis or evolution and bam…. you
are an idiot. why? because you don’t believe nonlife can be life. even
though it cannot be repeated.
It unfortunate that evolution deniers, global warming deniers, and GMO
deniers actually get elected to office.
Sagan is totally correct. Pseudoscience is a danger, especially when those
who believe it are dictating political policy. That’s why belief in science
is pretty much my only precondition for who I vote for.
Completely agree with Carl Sagan people without education cannot make
the right laws about technology :))
*“We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody
understands anything about science and technology,”* Sagan said. *“And this
combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to
blow up in our faces.”*
And in his autobiography this joker claims he gained his best insights into
science while toking on weed! Calling others charlatans is the expert pot
calling the kettle black.
Frighteningly accurate.
thankfully I think it’s changing, though not fast enough. Eventually people
need to realize that if they want to be part of the changing world instead
of simply watching it from the sidelines, they need to educate themselves
in the sciences and learn to think critically about how science can be
responsibly utilized to drive change.
Do not rely on public education systems to drive knowledge into you. They
are crippled and will continue to remain crippled by the powers that be.
You need to explore on your own. In the age of information ignorance is a
choice
Next week, Carl Sagan will have been dead for 18 years. His last televised
interview was with Charlie Rose, and it was amazing.
Throughout his career, Carl consistently had one clear vision and his
endeavors as a popularizer of science were actually only a means to try to
make his vision a reality.
His message was always that knowledge is the most important tool for
freedom, peace, and fulfillment of humankind’s true potential. That was his
vision: to see humankind rise above it’s pettiness and become something
greater than it ever had been, because he believed we could.
I do too.
Do you?
Carl Sagan and Government_ Charlie Rose.wmv
Prescient words from wisdom passed too soon. I think the technologies we
are seeing today would delight and terrify Sagan.
h/t +Casey McKinnon
In his last interview, CARL SAGAN predicted the DANGEROUS MIX between
POWERFUL TECHNOLOGY and people’s deep IGNORANCE ABOUT SCIENCE and their
incapability to elect representatives capable of making wise decisions
about what direction science and technology should advance.
Carl Sagan and Government_ Charlie Rose.wmv
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to
criticize.”
“… otherwise we don’t run the government, the government runs us.”
Dr. Sagan was absolutely right. And you can see it today – American
politics, culture, and economies have not been able to keep up the rate of
scientific and technological advancement. Have we reached a tipping point?
Perhaps this is the reason why the fervently religious seem crazier than
ever, why some people are so drawn to the past, and why some are afraid of
the future.
I think this can – and will – change. All we need to do is educate.
One might say.. Prophetic.
via +Upworthy
“The republicans have just abolished their own office of technology
assessment”
That’s probably a good thing.
You can see, in the comments here, people affected by the very thing he was
trying to warn about.
Those with extreme ignorance of science are easily duped into fearing said
science and blaming it on problems that don’t exist. And so when someone
comes along to ensure them that they will fix those problems they gullibly
accept this ‘help.’
He hit everything right on the head…especially about the skeptical on
what is told by others
Predicted? What’s true now about what he said that wasn’t in 1996 when he
said it?
Carl Sagan on a more scientific government, and society.
Carl Sagan and government.
Shortly before he died seventeen years ago, Dr Carl Sagan was interviewed
about the drastic need for science education in a world which depends
entirely on science but where so many people are scientifically indifferent.
I do not think the situation has improved, either here in Australia or in
America. The indifference to science manifests itself as ignorance, often
leading to opposition and contempt.
The prophets of religion got it mostly wrong but Carl Sagan was always
right.
industrialist elites will use any technique in order to continue reaping
profit until they no longer can or are chastise by society and made to
stop. With the latter they will use and abuse religion, science,
philosophy, general ignorance to delay and obfuscate society’s ability to
stop their damaging practices.
Four “thumbs down” for this video?! That exactly shows what the problem is.
What a great man.
A giant of human thought predicting 2013 in 1996.
Everything we do is linked by technology with science being the backbone.
Unfortunately few in congress care to support or know much about it.
Cuts to NASA and the National Science Foundation are part of the problem
Carl Sagan warned about nearly twenty years ago. Great interview by CBS’s
Charlie Rose. #twt
This is so true. Listen and fully understand it.
Extremely interesting and some of the same things have been concerning me
for a while :/ .. I feel like we are approaching a tipping point on this
issue 🙁
via upworthy
http://www.upworthy.com/a-science-icon-died-17-years-ago-in-his-last-interview-he-made-a-warning-that-gives-me-goosebumps-5?c=ufb1
totally agree… so many warnings and ppl tend to ignore them… science
became the new god. a nice quote:
Life would again have to make superhuman efforts, “as in a battle”, to
break open for himself a path through the truths created by the sciences
which dream of being but cannot see it in waking reality
― Lev Shestov