I stopped to worry about the future when I realized that our sun will die one day and this world will become inhabitable and that even the universe itself might end one day. And maybe it will all start over somewhere, somewhen. So if we screw up here, it will start somewhere again. Maybe it already has.Ngie wrote:Allow me to say one thing the way i see it in an ecologist humainst way who wish not to worry any longer about the future and rather think apocalypse is soon over.
All we can do is trying to make this world a happy place for all living creatures. Till the day we eat them or kill them because they are an infection.
To cite my beloved Robert A. Heinlein said: A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain.Ngie wrote:It is high time that a comitee of wise people takes control over those who are on top of the world finance and who have no correct consideration of the consequence of their games.
Just look at all those experts during the finance crisis who all disagree with each other. No one knows what is right or wrong. Politics/Economy lack a scientific method to validate the consequences of their decisions because human society is a too complex system.
The EU has founded several software projects to simulate society, like FuturICT, which could be used in the future to check what happens if one changes a tax, a law, etc.. But I doubt they might be able to handle it and that politicians will actually listen to them, still I believe that it is a great idea and a little help in decision making is better than none.
So far we can only try to achieve common sense, be kind and helpful to those around us and stand up when we see something is wrong. And be aware of false prophets. And keep talking. (Ugh. By these quotes FotN suddenly turn out to be highly political. )