ANALYSIS: We're destroying our planet, at a climate change tipping point. But what if science can't save us?
Ageing populations and chronic illness, along with mental health issues, are putting unsustainable pressure on health care.Our lead scientist and CSIRO boss, Larry Marshall, says we are caught in an ocean rip. It can drag us out to sea and death, or we can learn to use it.Marshall puts his faith in science. Technology, artificial intelligence all present opportunities, even as they swallow up jobs and change how we live and work.
Yet science has put in our hands the capacity to destroy life on the planet. This is our deal with the devil: untold riches at the cost of our soul. Author Karen Armstrong has sought to look beyond religion that divides, to a world of wonder that connects us. We invented a world where reason was God. From scientist Isaac Newton and philosopher Rene Descartes, the schism of the divine and the rational was set.For Descartes, the "I" came before all: "I think therefore I am."Armstrong is a former nun who left the convent because she felt her religion had no place for kindness. She has devoted her life to writing about all faiths, questioning the role of faith in violence.
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