A Man Can See By

When I Get Sick, I Go To My Doctor Like Everyone Else. A Doctor Has Powerful Tools That May Help Me. Or Those Tools May Hurt Me, Make Me Worse. I Have To Decide. It's My Life. It's My Responsibility.

Real Life Isn't A Series Of Interconnected Events Occurring One After Another - Like Beads Strung On A Necklace. Life Is Actually A Series Of Encounters In Which One Event May Change Those That Follow In A Wholly Unpredictable, Even Devastating Way.

Human Beings Are So Destructive. I Sometimes Think We're A Kind Of Plague, That Will Scrub The Earth Clean. We Destroy Things So Well That I Sometimes Think, Maybe That's Our Function. Maybe Every Few Eons, Some Animal Comes Along That Kills Off The Rest Of The World, Clears The Decks, And Lets Evolution Proceed To Its Next Phase.

In My View, Our Approach To Global Warming Exemplifies Everything That Is Wrong With Our Approach To The Environment. We Are Basing Our Decisions On Speculation, Not Evidence. Proponents Are Pressing Their Views With More Pr Than Scientific Data. Indeed, We Have Allowed The Whole Issue To Be Politicized-red Vs Blue, Republican Vs Democrat. This Is In My View Absurd. Data Aren't Political. Data Are Data. Politics Leads You In The Direction Of A Belief. Data, If You Follow Them, Lead You To Truth.

Increasingly, The Mathematics Will Demand The Courage To Face Its Implications.