Mark Levene <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> But even if we can trace the beginnings of
> anthropogenic climate change's
> growing momentum to the industrial revolution,
> responsibility for its
> accelerating surge is entirely a consequence of the
> now. With the great
> paradox that today the majority of us are so out of
> tune with our
> surroundings, in our centrally heated bubbles from
> which we can barely
> distinguish one season from the next, that we have
> lost what should be an
> innate ability to recognise catastrophe when it
> stares us in the face.

I am afraid there is a more fundamental catastrophe
staring us in the face (rather, killing our
civilization) that we do not recognise:

http://www.politics.co.uk/press-releases/education/higher-education/higher-education/ucu-reports-reveal-uk-black-spots-in-science-and-language-degrees-$465420.htm
"Parts of the UK cannot offer students, or potential
students, courses in key subject areas such as core
sciences and modern languages, according to two
reports released today (Thursday) by the University
and College Union (UCU)....‘Degrees of decline’
reveals that 10 per cent of UK science and maths
courses have been axed in the last decade....The state
of science and modern language provision at university
demonstrates the shameful gap between rhetoric and
reality in higher education policy. Since 1999 seventy
science departments have been axed and there are now
parts of the country that offer very few specialist
science degrees. We are facing a potentially
irreversible decline in the provision of science
unless action is taken now."

See also

http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/discussion.asp?id=2645

Pentcho Valev
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