According to this article, an alarming number of Americans are ignorant:
Thirteen percent of Americans have never heard of global warming even though their country is the world's top source of greenhouse gases, a 46-country survey showed on Monday.
While this ignorance may, indeed, feel quite blissful, I thought it worth pondering what some great thinkers of the past have said on the subject of ignorance:
- Thomas Jefferson - "No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity."
William Hazlitt - "The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice."
Samuel Johnson - ,"He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces."
TS Eliot - "All our ignorance brings us closer to death."
Despite this knowledge of imminent mass extinction, Exxon is offering $10,000 to scientists willing to deny this climate holocaust.
2 comments:
Do you mean this quote from T.S. Eliot: "All our ignorance brings us closer to death."
I think this is appropriate in discussing American attitudes to global warming for a poll done only last week found that a full 13% of Americans had never even heard of global warming.
Yes. Correction made. Thanks!
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