We've arranged a #society based on #science and #technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of #ignorance 
and #power 
, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a #democracy 
if the people don't know anything about it ? https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan#Quotes
#MUSTSEE: This video, about The Earth (and how humans are destroying this planet right now) with the words of Carl Sagan, should be repeated on every school on this planet, monthly or weekly.
America chooses to have homeless people.
Other countries care more about their babies than America does.
(Let's not even start with school kids 
)
If this triggers you, listen.
Why would you NOT want to live in a country that actually takes care of its people?
I love this guy!
https://bsky.app/profile/sagan.bsky.social/post/3lndc3lyqss24
#CarlSagan Issues a Chilling Warning About the Decline of #Scientific #Thinking in #America:
Watch His Final Interview (1996)
A bonmot by #CarlSagan:
They laughed at Einstein. They laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
I would add: with Trump they lost their humour!
I do celebrate this!
The most visionary interview with #CarlSagan 1996:
"If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along ... people had to be educated and they had to practice their skepticism and their education. Otherwise we don't run the government; the government runs us." https://charlierose.com/videos/9094
#CarlSagan made this point about our moral failings in the 1980s, when the US ranked 19th for preventing #InfantMortality. We are now in 45th place, and 55th if self-governing territories are counted. American policy maximizes profit for #oligarchs and fucks over the rest of us.
Vorsatz: Immer wenn ich schlechte Nachrichten höre - und deren Frequenz steigt leider expotenziell - dann rufe ich mir Carl Sagans Pale Blue Dot in Erinnerung. Hilft, ein bisschen. Zumindest rückt es die Perspektive wieder bissel zurecht.
Duelo de titanes ¿Cual es tu divulgador científico estadounidense y de la segunda mitad del siglo XX favorito?
“We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology.
This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.”
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
-- Carl Sagan
#Wisdom #Quotes #CarlSagan #Change #Science #Politics #Religion
Starting my next book, and I’m a little embarrassed to admit that I have never read this before: I really do not understand how I have allowed this state of affairs to happen #Goodreads #ReadingChallenge #CurrentlyReading #Bibliophile #Bookworm #CarlSagan #TheDemonHauntedWorld #ScienceAsaCandleInTheDark #BookLovers
I hope my time is a long way away yet, but when my time comes I want to have a pretty one like Carl's. Maybe in a park where cats and dogs are free to roam around.
I’ve noticed this book has been getting a lot of play lately. So I thought I’d revisit it. I was disappointed.
