I`ve been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I`ve been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology, yet most of us are alienated from science.
I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It`s so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day.
For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.
Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science.