To:    Comment at the Guardian
Re:    Science, a product of our higher, human nature, has been hijacked by our lower, animal nature
Date: Thursday 2 November 06

In response to Guardian article, "To infinity and beyond", by Pat Kane, on what motivates young people to take an interest in science.
 

 
It is terrible, but typical, the way science is principally seen in terms of its "economic utility" - although, I have a "scientific" explanation as to why this is so, which might just help us get on top of the problem.

It is this attitude and approach to science that has got us into the terrible mess we are in, having facilitated the development of an economy and way of life which are causing us to plunder and wreck our planet.

A product of our higher, human nature (awareness of and curiosity about the world and our place in it), science has been hijacked and harnessed by our lower, animal nature to serve its own, perfectly natural from an evolutionary perspective, but on our finite and vulnerable planet, utterly unsustainable purposes.

More on my homepage at http://www.spaceship-earth.org

Link to "To infinity and beyond", plus all comments at The Guardian.