On inspirational readings - on a different level, but the transcript of the Chief Executive of CSIRO, Megan Clark's speech to the National Press Club, 30 September.
Inspiring for anyone pondering our human struggle, I think. Sets out some challenges for us all & how to use scientific ideas to have a crack. Full of interesting posers, too.
One of my favourites is the realisation that in the next 50 years, we (humans on earth) will need to produce as much food as has been consumed over our entire human history to date.
As she says; "That means in the working life of my children, more grain than ever produced since the Egyptians, more fish than eaten to date, more milk than from all the cows that have ever been milked on every frosty morning humankind has ever known."
jeepers.
http://www.csiro.au/science/Megan-Clark-Press-Club-Address.html
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