Why do we usually utilize science to fix the wrong problem?
Shouldn't we be making more efforts on 1) Growing more trees 2) Reducing environmental pollution 3) Controlling human population
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Shouldn't we be making more efforts on 1) Growing more trees 2) Reducing environmental pollution 3) Controlling human population
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The only way to ensure long-term survival is to develop science and technology quickly enough to solve problems (both natural and artificial) as they come up.
This includes solving problems created by past generations, who necessarily did not have access to the knowledge needed to avoid creating those problems in the first place.
It's certainly not guaranteed that we will do so fast enough.
As a humanity we can (and should) multitask, especially when it comes to science and inventions, because you never know which seemingly pointless path can lead you to a great breakthrough.
Imagine everybody since antiquity worked only on the greatest humanity problems as they've seen it at the time. No useless stuff like music, so no irrational numbers for example :)