Things to worry about today number one: Drug Traces Common In Drinking Water

[koganbot]

According to AP story Drug Traces Common In Tap Water (title a bit misleading, since the drug traces may well be common in filtered and bottled water too; and by drugs they also mean hormones and the like, pharmaceuticals in general

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[dubdobdee]

low sperm count = gaian population recalibration!

i've been rereading lots of late 50s early 60s science fiction: blimey they were gung ho back then for the next-stage evolutionary mutation (strangely it always involves become more like an insect)

[koganbot]

What do you think of Jefferson Airplane's "Crown of Creation" (quotes from John Wyndham's Chrysalids)?

[koganbot]

it always involves become more like an insect

Or developing powers of telepathy!

[koganbot]

Wiki:

Wyndham's science fiction may be considered trendsetting in its insistence that interplanetary catastrophes do not just happen to "other people" (e.g. those best-equipped to face them) and would in fact be extremely difficult for our delicate and highly interconnected civilisation to deal with. Similarly ahead of its time is the emphasis that Wyndham put on disruptions to the biosphere as a whole

[koganbot]

The results are always grim, as we rational beings, most notably in Kraken, at every step attempt to rationalize extraordinary situations into our present day view of our planet. In this sense Wyndham exposes our rationality as purely protective, and, in the end, detrimental. Only when no hope is left can we actually face facts - this is just when hope presents itself as one last flicker of the human potential.