This is the most dangerous time for our planet

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
> Date: December 3, 2016 at 1:28:10 PM EST
> To: Multiple recipients of Dewayne-Net <dewayne-net () warpspeed com>
> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] This is the most dangerous time for our planet
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> This is the most dangerous time for our planet
> We can’t go on ignoring inequality, because we have the means to destroy our world but not to escape it
> By Stephen Hawking
> Dec 9 2016
> https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/01/stephen-hawking-dangerous-time-planet-inequality
>
> As a theoretical physicist based in Cambridge, I have lived my life in an extraordinarily privileged bubble. 
> Cambridge is an unusual town, centred around one of the world’s great universities. Within that town, the scientific 
> community that I became part of in my 20s is even more rarefied.
>
> And within that scientific community, the small group of international theoretical physicists with whom I have spent 
> my working life might sometimes be tempted to regard themselves as the pinnacle. In addition to this, with the 
> celebrity that has come with my books, and the isolation imposed by my illness, I feel as though my ivory tower is 
> getting taller.
>
> So the recent apparent rejection of the elites in both America and Britain is surely aimed at me, as much as anyone. 
> Whatever we might think about the decision by the British electorate to reject membership of the European Union and 
> by the American public to embrace Donald Trump as their next president, there is no doubt in the minds of 
> commentators that this was a cry of anger by people who felt they had been abandoned by their leaders.
>
> It was, everyone seems to agree, the moment when the forgotten spoke, finding their voices to reject the advice and 
> guidance of experts and the elite everywhere.
>
> [snip]



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