The medieval age, or dark age, was just a few dozen generations ago. When humans used to burn women because of superstition and persecuted scientists as heretics. When it was common for children and mothers to die during childbirth. When disease killed a quarter or so of a population. When people died due to a bad tooth or a broken limb. When education was based a century’s old fiction book. It took many curious and courageous lifes to establish the scientific method. This scientific method enabled us to go from riding horses to flying to the moon. To have pocket sized computers, that connect and enterntain us. Due to science we eradicated many terrible diseases and are on the verge to win over AIDS and cancer. Nowadays this science is available almost everywhere and anytime to almost anybody.
German businesses, politicians call for 5-year delay in climate targets
A lot, if not all of the things these businesses sell are based on science. Now they want us be ignorant to science again. Every action has a reaction! The law of physics does not wait for us to be ready. The science is clear: we can’t delay reducing fossil fuel use any longer! And:
Screw anybody that tries to keep humanity ignorant and uneducated!
Thank you very much for your thoughts!
Medieval spelled wrong was a mistake by me. English is my third language and this is one of the words, where I am never really sure how it is spelled!
Thank you for clarifying the word “dark ages”. I just read the regarding Wikipedia and if I understood it correctly, both of us are not wrong.
I don’t know about how many women were burned. I am currently reading Carl Sagan’s “A Demon Hunted World” and there he states in the 7th chapter talking about the chronicles of the city “Würzburg”:
Maybe you are right on scientist. It’s just what I’ve heard, that people were persecuted, when they were saying things that challenged the image the Church was providing.
For education: I don’t actually know how it was. I assume that education was reserved for a small wealthy minority, but this is more guessing than knowing. So I take your word.
I agree on your words on modern transport. There can be plenty of discussion about what is necessary and what not. But this is missing the point I was trying to make: How much knowledge we gained in a short period of time.
Personally I am against private transport, at least the way it is practised today. I think everybody can have a bicyle, I am not against this. But I think a ton of steel that takes up 10 square meter is a little over the top to transport a single person as well.
Thank you again for writing this up. This gives me plenty of interesting topics to look into!