I really don’t think this will be a fruitful discussion, it just tends to generate enormous emotionalism and the discussion breaks down.
What I will say is overpopulation, resource expiration, eugenics by genetic engineering … all things that will have to be addressed, and hard decisions that the global society will have no choice but to face as we look down the barrel of the gun, realising it is our not so good friend “Mr. Extinction”, who has taken off the safety, and is firmly aiming at homo sapien.
You mean we’ll have to be far more hard edged about who we support in the global community? Like leaving nature to it?
I have to say, in the world we live in today - i can’t see many other things that could help us apart from being ruthless like that. There are just too many people on the planet. We are slowly killing ourselves - and I think there is not long to go before it becomes an irreversible situation.
Well, as of yet nobody (thank goodness) has pressed the button. Lets hope nobody is lunatic enough to do so.
I reckon it’ll be a natural disaster that kicks things off personally.
but your friendly neighborhood jihadist would never dream of pressing the button, no, they are too nice and good and willing to be appeased with liberal bribes… just give 'em a little (rhine)land and they’ll be happy…
Only irreversible with respect to our species, in all probability. The rest of “life” will meander about a bit, and then get back to the business of making more life once the conditions have leveled.
I really don’t have any idea Grizz … historically though, as the … ahem … “apex organism” we have shown a glaring propensity for the “wholesale” screw up as opposed to the gradual trend.
Fortunately, throughout most of history, the issue containing the screw up has been localisation through geographic isolation. Considering the technological world of today, I think it is probable that our next “great advent in idiocy” will be another wholesale action … and this time, localisation, won’t be the containing parameter … well, unless we consider the planet itself as a case for localisation.
You are probably absolutely right. Bit difficult to start a new human race on a different planet just yet isn’t it. Damnit, i just hope i get laid again before we all die.
The flaw really lies in the school systems. I am 17, so i see this problem every week day. Thanks to the enforcement of the No Child Left Behind Act and emphasis on standardized testing, the days of flexible and intuitive curriculums are gone. This means that any possibility of modeling creative and free thinking dies with it. Without free speech and free thought being encouraged by teachers and administrators, pop culture becomes an outlet for expression, increasing the influence of things such as movies and musicians. This is the original source of the problem.
the days of granting diplomas to illiterates are gone. for shame. you mean you have to actually learn something to get a diploma now? boo hoo… go stand in line for government cheeze…
What’s wrong with Ted Kennedy and Georgie Bush getting together with the activists from Children’s Defense Fund and the lawyers from the NEA to tell teachers how to teach?
Oh, that’s right … Ted Kennedy is moron.
George Bush wouldn’t know english if it walked up and bit his fucking head off.
CDF has nothing to do with education but seems to think they should be involved in educational policy.
The NEA is 90% corporate attorneys who have zero background in education … and the model for schooling that they proposed, that “suprisingly” came from somewhere in Texas … doesn’t exist.
No Child Left Behind is working, didn’t you hear the primates speech recently? They have numbers that show it’s a success!!!
Unless they are … dare I say it … “lying to the public” … ::GASP:: … couldn’t be.