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Notice that, while in 1992 the scientists issued a call to humanity for a NEW ETHIC, in enlisting help they did not list PHILOSOPHERS. The “the world’s business and industrial leaders“, the “world’s peoples” and even the “world’s religious leaders” made it into the list, in addition to the “world community of scientists — natural, social, economic, political”.
I cannot help but repeat the translation of the Heart Sutra, provided by a friend and former Buddhist monk, that i just (synchronistically) ran into in the library – between log-in breaks 🙂
Gone,
gone,
long gone.
- The sci authority credentials are impressive!
- The message – A “2nd Warning”, or SOS from ourselves ?!
CITATION: World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice
BioScience. Published online November 13, 2017. doi:10.1093/biosci/bix125
BioScience | © The Author(s) 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com
cf. rendition by CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/15000-scientists-warning-to-humanity-1.4395767
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