Yea, The public issues don't include the great problems. But not even the intellectuals seem to asking why all our solutions keep leaving us with worse problems. so why bother telling people we have the solution when apparently we're not even looking for the right question yet?
Phil From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Johnson Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 8:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] com Subject: [FRIAM] A moral obligation fyi ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Shawn Otto - ScienceDebate2008 team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 4:20 PM Subject: A moral obligation To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear John , Every Nobel laureate we've spoken to has said the same thing: the next four to eight years are critical and the next president has the potential to determine the future health of all life on earth. Last Tuesday Bill Gates testified <http://www.sciencedebate2008.com/www/index.php?id=27> before Congress saying that on the economic front, America "is at a crossroads" and will almost certainly become a second-rate economy without massive attention to science & engineering in schools and changes in government policies toward innovation. These are dire words from people who are normally cautious in language, and they are just two of the major questions that are getting virtually no discussion in our electoral process. So on March 14, we held a high-powered press conference in Philadelphia, arguing that Hillary Clinton, John McCain, and Barack Obama have a moral obligation to debate these issues. It was attended by several TV and radio crews, print journalists, supporters and some terrific kids from a local science magnet high school. After all, they're the ones that are going to have to live with our failed policies. Here's the video: The team at ScienceDebate2008.com <http://www.sciencedebate2008.com/www/index.php?id=2> Unsubscribe <http://www.thedatabank.com/smSub.asp?aacwc=351233355885004511769> | Privacy <http://www.sciencedebate2008.com/www/index.php?id=15> Policy <http://www.thedatabank.com> Error! Filename not specified. -- ========================================== J. T. Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA www.analyticjournalism.com 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) http://www.jtjohnson.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." -- Buckminster Fuller ==========================================
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