Comments on: Scientists, Please Get Busier http://www.foodplanetblog.com/2010/01/scientists-please-get-busier/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:49:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: mike http://www.foodplanetblog.com/2010/01/scientists-please-get-busier/comment-page-1/#comment-436 mike Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:35:58 +0000 http://www.foodplanetblog.com/?p=1847#comment-436 I guess it all comes down to politics and money. I guess it all comes down to politics and money.

]]> By: Donna http://www.foodplanetblog.com/2010/01/scientists-please-get-busier/comment-page-1/#comment-435 Donna Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:21:26 +0000 http://www.foodplanetblog.com/?p=1847#comment-435 Wow, so many interesting points in one short comment. I never looked at this as an opportunity, but you're absolutely right. The opportunity to study extinctions in real time - maybe finally they could figure out what happened to those dinosaurs. I agree that many times it's about the money. But in our ignorance, it's also about the finger pointing and blame game. Just look at global warming. We're all so caught up in the blame game, that nobody can concede that it might be a combination of factors, some under human control and some not, to have a really effective discussion about it. Extinction has happened, as you point out, millions of years ago, way before we had anything to do with it. If we explored what was happening right now, with funding in the necessary places, we might learn a lot, and save a lot, if we could just de-politicize the effort. Wow, so many interesting points in one short comment. I never looked at this as an opportunity, but you’re absolutely right. The opportunity to study extinctions in real time – maybe finally they could figure out what happened to those dinosaurs.

I agree that many times it’s about the money. But in our ignorance, it’s also about the finger pointing and blame game. Just look at global warming. We’re all so caught up in the blame game, that nobody can concede that it might be a combination of factors, some under human control and some not, to have a really effective discussion about it. Extinction has happened, as you point out, millions of years ago, way before we had anything to do with it. If we explored what was happening right now, with funding in the necessary places, we might learn a lot, and save a lot, if we could just de-politicize the effort.

]]> By: mike http://www.foodplanetblog.com/2010/01/scientists-please-get-busier/comment-page-1/#comment-434 mike Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:22:03 +0000 http://www.foodplanetblog.com/?p=1847#comment-434 What a tangled web we weave. Many species in this world are under assault for various reasons. I believe we are living in the middle of a mass extinction. One of the mass extinctions that strike our planet every few hundred million years. I think scientists are missing an excellent opportunity to gain insight into the mass extinction phenomenon. Of course if we go extinct I'm not sure who is going benefit from the knowlege. Anyway if we want scientists to save our favorite species, we have to first educate scientists and then fund them to do the work. Right now I think people want to be educated to earn more money. It's always about the money isn't it? What a tangled web we weave. Many species in this world are under assault for various reasons. I believe we are living in the middle of a mass extinction. One of the mass extinctions that strike our planet every few hundred million years. I think scientists are missing an excellent opportunity to gain insight into the mass extinction phenomenon. Of course if we go extinct I’m not sure who is going benefit from the knowlege.

Anyway if we want scientists to save our favorite species, we have to first educate scientists and then fund them to do the work. Right now I think people want to be educated to earn more money. It’s always about the money isn’t it?

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