Elon Musk speech: ‘The dumbest experiment in history’ — with thanks to Mr. Joe Byerwalter for this resource
Also see:
Dear College Students: You Should Take Geology — from wired.com by Erik Klemetti
Excerpt:
Few disciplines in today’s world play such a significant role in how society operates and what we can do to protect our future. Few fields of study can play such a profound role in protecting people’s lives on a daily basis, whether you realize it or not. And few can bring together so many disparate ideas, from sciences to social sciences to humanities to the arts, like the study of the Earth can.
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Here are some of the ways that taking a course in the geology will impact your life for the rest of it.
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Climate: Now, so far I’ve talked about all the fun parts of geology. However, if you’re looking for work that is important to you, your family and society across the planet, geology is the place to be. First off, geology is ground zero for understanding climate change across the history of Earth. We’ve been studying the variation in the planet’s ecosystems for two centuries now (heck, paleontology helped start the discipline) and can look back billions of years to see how the climate has varied. This gives us that evidence to show how much our current climate is likely in a state of distress. Geology is also how we can understand what the impact of climate change will be on our planet, both in the short- and long-term.
Thanks for posting Daniel, fossil fuels are a very real issue we need to take care of. Elon’s one of the best people to talk about it – I’ve had my eye on a Tesla S for quite some time now.
I wonder, if he started proposing solutions on Twitter we could just have a great case of social learning happening live!
Great thinking Nikos!
Thanks,
Daniel
Always on the lookout for interesting posts – thanks for supplying, Daniel!