The Wisdom of George Will

George Will presents the thoughts of Robert B. Laughlin, co-winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics, who wrote an article in The american Scholar titled "What the Earth Knows" and supports his hypothesis:

"What humans do to, and ostensibly for, the earth does not matter in the long run, and the long run is what matters to the earth. We must, Laughlin says, think about the earth’s past in terms of geologic time."

The closing paragraph:

"Six million years ago the Mediterranean dried up. Ninety million years ago there were alligators in the Arctic. Three hundred million years ago Northern Europe was a desert and coal formed in Antarctica. “One thing we know for sure,” Laughlin says about these convulsions, “is that people weren’t involved.”"


An interesting read for all my green friends!