Americans aren’t science savvy
I would like to see us get it right before I die but there are so many “inconvenient truths” that we are failing to recognize or deal with that I have become increasingly skeptical the older I get.
How about nitrates in our drinking water? There are a lot of aquifers in our state with plenty of water, we just can’t drink it. It’s like the “Rime of the Ancient Mariner.: “Water water everywhere but not a drop to drink.”
The science exists to solve many of our problems. We’re just not using it. We’re not big on science as a country. Most Americans don’t believe in evolution, the theory of natural selection or climate change and especially man-generated or accelerated climate change. And that is what will kill us, and it will kill us sooner than we think.
Charles Milor, Fresno
This story was originally published November 22, 2016 at 11:05 AM with the headline "Americans aren’t science savvy."