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...TIME's cover headline, "System Failure," suggested a self-deception as old as humankind. There was no system available. Believing that government agencies, however competent, can prevent human suffering and loss only causes more of both. Peter L. Sloan New York City...
...Louisiana the cleanup of the two-part disaster is just getting started. But many of the state's best engineering and environmental minds are already looking much further down the road, at what it will take to safely maintain humankind's precarious foothold at the water's edge. Louisiana's coastal towns have vowed to rebuild, but will they ever truly be safe...
TIME's cover headline, "System Failure," suggested a self-deception as old as humankind. There was no system available. Believing that government agencies, however competent, can prevent human suffering and loss only causes more of both...
...pathways to life is one of the largest questions of humankind so it will probably take the whole of science to find out the answer,” he said. “I don’t think this will take effort only within chemistry or only within biology to understand what happened in the universe to lead from chemistry to biology...
...Foolish reactions are inevitable in moments of disaster. But in the primal enormity of the Gulf Coast tragedy, these two risible and annoying responses almost seemed to have a purpose. They were a reminder of our vestigial selves, of how humankind has rationalized catastrophe through most of its history. The whims of nature were either God's will or our fault. Happily, the two institutions that arose from these explanations-religion and government-proved to be civilizing impulses. Religion provided the moral basis for human interaction; government provided the forum for common action against external threats...