I see, I understand, I care, I act - thanks goodness for doctors…
15 Mar, 09 | by David Pencheon
I once heard of an experiment where a subject was placed in a room - and when smoke appeared under the door, she rightly raised the alarm immediately. However, when the experiment was repeated with another subject, but this time with a handful of actors in the room who deliberately did nothing when the smoke appeared, it look a long time (until the room was completely full of smoke) before the subject ignored the inertia of the actors and raised the alarm.
This suggests that we don’t take action as readily when we see others around us not doing so. Is there a connection with health and climate change? Climate change is not one of the most important health threats – it is the most important health threat we face.
So why, despite the evidence, are we not taking action, at individual, community, national, and global levels, in ways proportionate to the size of the risks we face? Well, let’s try and establish a possible sequence of attitudes and responses.
Firstly we may be ignorant of any evidence concerning climate change – unlikely, unless we are hermits. Secondly, we simply may not know the size and urgency of the threat we face. (Most policy makers I have ever worked with have been well aware that smoking is dangerous, but few seem to have realised that half of all smokers die prematurely.) Thirdly, we may be aware of the evidence but simply not believe it – after all, denial must be one of the most powerful coping mechanisms we human beings possess. Fourthly, we may know and believe but simply not care. Fifthly, we may believe the evidence and care, but feel powerless to do anything significant about it.
Whatever the reason, let’s try and sort this before it’s too late – the room is rapidly becoming full of smoke, Don’t wait until everybody else acts before you do.
Nothing surprising, dear David. Here is another example. Obama has reportedly asked the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) to draft new guidelines for stem cell research with the next four months. In a few words, studies on stem cells and their applications may now occur thanks to Obama. Unfortunately, no one USA governement member, including Obama, know that Quantum-Biophysical-Semeiotic-Constituionsreally exist ALSO in stem cells donors!You surely understand what I mean… So that, once again in general SILENCE, I invite every man of good will, to reflect upon the central problem among all others, different in nature, regarding stem cells study and utilization, i.e., Quantum-Biophysical-Semeiotic Constitutions of the donors! Do yoou know that in Literature there are a lot of cases of osteoporosis and cancer in young individuals treated with stem cells, overlooking perfectly these constitutions, i.e., donors mit-DNA and not only n-DNA?
Sergio Stagnaro
March 16th, 2009 at 11:43 am