Facebook sharing, below Ben Peczon’s name in the above image, the text reads:
This article is a bit long but at this time, more than ever, Homo sapiens must use science. We must find effective ways to overcome the efforts of people who do not adhere to the tenets of good science.
Counting via Word 2016, it’s about 1,400 words long, but I am a very fast reader (absorber); I want to challenge myself with your challenge of using “good science” to solve any of the world’s bad problems. And so, with that article by Marshall Matz & Nina V Fedoroff[1], I find that I can summarize the authors’ points using their own 2nd-to-the-last paragraph, and it is this:
We ignored our experts and our public health system wasn’t prepared for a long-predicted pandemic. And we ignore Borlaug’s wisdom about food and population at our peril. The breeding practices that brought Borlaug success have done what they can, yet can’t assure crops yields to feed an even modestly larger population as the climate grows harsher. Nor will the critics’ nostalgia about traditional crops and farming methods make up the growing shortfall.
“We ignore Borlaug’s wisdom about food and population at our peril.” What the authors are saying is simply this: “Food production will always outrun population growth no matter what we do.” This is otherwise called the “population bomb” – and, as far as I know, it has not exploded in any country, except those at war against vested interests.
And no, it is not production that is the problem – it is distribution of & access to food. Do you know that the United States dumps so much food into the ocean for its economy’s sake?
That way, your science Mr Matz & Ms Nina, will never work because it is patchwork science, not holistic. It does not belong to a network of solutions that are designed to bring about one and only one common result:
Prosperity for all.
That is why we need in the Philippines Secretary of Agriculture William Dar’s “The New Thinking For Agriculture” because as in baseball, it covers all the bases! His genius. (About “The 8 Paradigms” covering all the basics, read this genius[2]!)
Yes, we need more science – but not only crops that continue to be improved and continue to yield even more – more & more science to modernize production, industrialize, promote exports, improve small-scale production, improve infrastructure, and overall roadmap development!
Norman Borlaug was a genius, but he failed to grasp what another genius earlier did, Albert Einstein – the relevance of insight.
“All great achievements of science must start from intuitive knowledge[3],” Einstein told a friend (Psychology Today). He also said, “The only real valuable thing is intuition.” (superimposed image from pondot.com). If truth be told, “My now-automatic call for intuitive knowledge is the secret of my extraordinary creativity” – Frank A Hilario.
My insight today is:
Science will not save us from ourselves – intuition will!@517
Science will not save us from ourselves – intuition will!@517
[1]https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2020/05/14/viewpoint-norman-borlaug-knew-technology-could-fight-hunger-in-the-biotech-age-we-ignore-his-wisdom-at-our-peril/?fbclid=IwAR2HYccmTWuCDgOD8X_OBplzNqVoV83PPb3vAOhXvgrXo4A1-Swv3yjQLII
[2]https://puckinsights.blogspot.com/2020/05/ph-aggie-mechanization-ernesto-m.html
[3]https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/29/steve-jobs-and-albert-einstein-both-attributed-their-extraordinary-success-to-this-personality-trait.html
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