Saturday, February 21, 2009

Scientific Observations

"There is always an applied side to thinking deeply. In any society there are many complicated issues that unfortunately get simplified to the point where short-sightedness wins...Science teaches us to think more broadly than that. If we really had wise leaders, they would take the long-term perspective seriously precisely because we are so prone to ignore it. They should listen to scientists and philosophers much more than economists who tend to be interested in what happens in the next annual quartile.

Animal Ecologist Hanna Kokko of Finland's Universiy of Hesinki, Sept.9 Current Biology

1 comment:

Ruskin said...

Very topical! Thanks for posting this :-)