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Although I don’t know enough to say that he is right I’d like to agree with Freeman Dyson when he says, as he does in this week’s NYTimes Magazine, that

“… it all boils down to ‘a deeper disagreement about values’ between those who think ‘nature knows best’ and that ‘any gross human disruption of the natural environment is evil,’ and ‘humanists,’ like himself, who contend that protecting the existing biosphere is not as important as fighting more repugnant evils like war, poverty and unemployment.”

The Whimsical Gaze Dyson still travels widely, giving talks at churches and colleges, reminding people how dangerous nuclear weapons are.

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