The Gods Themselves

I read Isaac Asimovs
“The Gods themselves”

In 1973

The social satire is how scientist are expected to find a solution to a problem that could easlly be solved by stopping the cause

In the 1970s I was in the original Greenpeace

We were concerned about the damage the human plague was doing to the ecology

And therefore labelled a dangerous radical group

I havent used plastic wrap since the seventies

But   plastic wrap is still the norm

As are so many practices that harm the environment

“Humans have driven the extinction of at least 881 animal species since around 1500, with many scientists suspecting the true number is far higher, possibly reaching over a million species by some estimates, including threatened ones. Plant and invertebrate extinctions are also significant but less documented. The current rate of species loss is unprecedented, leading to an ongoing sixth mass extinction, a phenomenon primarily caused by human activities like habitat destruction.  “