The Earth's Population Will Be Culled From

The Apologists For Space Science Always Seem Over-impressed By Engineering Trivia And Make Far Too Much Of Non-stick Frying Pans And Perfect Ball-bearings. To My Mind, The Outstanding Spin-off From Space Research Is Not New Technology. The Real Bonus Has Been That For The First Time In Human History We Have Had A Chance To Look At The Earth From Space, And The Information Gained From Seeing From The Outside Our Azure-green Planet In All Its Global Beauty Has Given Rise To A Whole New Set Of Questions And Answers.

I Have A Feeling That Climate Change May Be An Issue As Severe As A War. It May Be Necessary To Put Democracy On Hold For A While.

Florida Will Be Gone Altogether, The Whole Damned Place, In Not Too Long.

I Suspect Any Worries About Genetic Engineering May Be Unnecessary. Genetic Mutations Have Always Happened Naturally, Anyway.

I Think That We Reject The Evidence That Our World Is Changing Because We Are Still, As That Wonderfully Wise Biologist E. O. Wilson Reminded Us, Tribal Carnivores. We Are Programmed By Our Inheritance To See Other Living Things As Mainly Something To Eat, And We Care More About Our National Tribe Than Anything Else. We Will Even Give Our Lives For It And Are Quite Ready To Kill Other Humans In The Cruellest Of Ways For The Good Of Our Tribe. We Still Find Alien The Concept That We And The Rest Of Life, From Bacteria To Whales, Are Parts Of The Much Larger And Diverse Entity, The Living Earth.