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Youtube: Carl Sagan’s vision for our time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLkC7ralR30   One of Carl Sagan’s most pertinent messages for humanity…… our small planet, at this moment, here we face a critical branch-point in the history. What we do with our world, right now, will propagate down through the centuries and powerfully affect the destiny of our descendants.

It is well within our power to destroy our civilization, and perhaps our species as well. If we capitulate to superstition, or greed, or stupidity we can plunge our world into a darkness deeper than time between the collapse of classical civilization and the Italian Renaissaince.

But, we are also capable of using our compassion and our intelligence, our technology and our wealth, to make an abundant and meaningful life for every inhabitant of this planet. To enhance enormously our understanding of the Universe, and to carry us to the
stars.” Carl Sagan explains the immensity of space and time. This clip
is from Carl Sagan’s Cosmos episode 8, “Journeys in Space and Time.”

November 22, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Resources -audiovicual