Its so amusing to see posters on a message board calling Stephen Hawking an idiot. He is the Einstein of our age.
He is right of course. I would add all the rest is just talk as Global Warming is the one thing we will not stop and have never seen before. Physics and chemistry are about to decide which species survive the next mass extinction, which has already begun, and which will go gone. Humans will likely suffer massive losses and if not go extinct come perilously close.
The worst part is most humans don't have a clue about what is coming and soon to arrive. Much like the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
Something wicked this way comes.
Ya. I was struck by that, too. What I will say is if one believes that the world can be a better place, and one knows the history of unfettered capitalism, then intelligent people would acknowledge that capitalism needs to be tempered... tempered by wage and hour laws; tempered by child labor laws; tempered by OSHA regulations; tempered by laws preventing monopolies.
ony people who are very ignorant or who have no sense of social responsibility think that capitalism should be unfettered. so it isn't surprising that Stephen hawking, someone who has spent his life studying the way our world works, would understand some of that. I don't know how far he goes in those beliefs though. It's an interesting discussion to have.... well, except when one has it with people who are so ignorant that they fancy themselves smarter than Stephen hawking.
