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Our Biggest Threat Is Not An Asteroid About To Crash Into Us, Something We Can Do Nothing About. Instead, All The Major Threats Facing Us Today Are Problems Entirely Of Our Own Making. And Since We Made The Problems, We Can Also Solve The Problems.

It Invites A Search For Ultimate Causes: Why Were Europeans, Rather Than Africans Or Native Americans, The Ones To End Up With Guns, The Nastiest Germs, And Steel?

Science Is Often Misrepresented As "the Body Of Knowledge Acquired By Performing Replicated Controlled Experiments In The Laboratory." Actually, Science Is Something Broader: The Acquisition Of Reliable Knowledge About The World.

The Main Thing That Gives Me Hope Is The Media. We Have Radio, Tv, Magazines, And Books, So We Have The Possibility Of Learning From Societies That Are Remote From Us, Like Somalia. We Turn On The Tv And See What Blew Up In Iraq Or We See Conditions In Afghanistan.

The Past Was Still A Golden Age, Of Ignorance, While The Present Is An Iron Age Of Willful Bliss.