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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: TimF who wrote (7640)3/6/2001 2:05:13 PM
From: cosmicforce  Read Replies (2) of 82486
 
Are you talking about the rate of species extinction?

Pretty much everything... economic, social, political, religious, and ecological. We are still on the exponential part of the curve for population and economy. We are at rate limit on some things like food production and sustainability indices. There are some non-linear things that can produce instability on the horizon.

The benefits of biotechnology will be bigger than the introduction of plastics and semiconductors so I consider it an area for cautious investment. Religious orthodoxy is a non-linear, destabilizing factor and will take issue with discoveries and advances in biotechnology. The problem is that some of their concerns will be valid, but they will use archaic language to describe these risks and not sound very credible. I don't see that religion brings much to the party unless it undergoes a major intellectual transformation.

We are at about the same place we were in 1950 in terms of relative risk. Some people are getting more enlightened, others getting less so. There is increased polarization. Time will tell how it will be resolved. It should not be a time to retreat to the past (no matter how tempting), but rather look hopefully to the future. All, JMO.
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