A matter of intelligence.

What is intelligence, we think every day and we are labeled in one way or another people continually make judgments, but around us the world never quite matches up to our thoughts and ideas. Clever people do stupid things, dumb people make some astute observations. There are broadly several types as far as i can see:

- Memory and the ability to memorize details.

- Ability to to see through detail and pick out the pertinent points in an argument.

- Wisdom the ability to learn from experience and apply it to your decision making.

- Ability to digest a complex problem with many sides and facets and work through and apply techniques of analysis to it such as mathematics.

We simplify to make the world understandable, to allow us to function and progress, we ignore pain and suffering to allow ourselves to move on, i live in relative comfort in a European country whilst in the world people are being tortured murdered and killed.

So i read about scientific solutions to fix the problems of global warming they are talking about putting a hose spewing volcanic particles into the atmosphere, apparently some guy who Bill Gates thinks is the most intelligent guy he ever met... well that already shows a crass lack of wisdom, how many humans do we truly meet who have all the intelligence skills, zero or close to zero and they are never the types who spent years at large corporations.

Geeks should be praised for their contribution to humanity and that men in sheds have given us what we have today, yet let's never forget that the most difficult skill to acquire is wisdom and that the problem which afflicts highly intelligent individuals is arrogance, they sometimes don't step back and reflect.

So the most complex system on planet earth they think they can fix with a hosepipe into the atmosphere, perhaps they have created the cheapest weapon of war, it ignores some basic ideas. Global warming is part of the equation which involves, population, consumption, declining resources... idiots, bloody idiots... damn these highly educated Harvard types and their inability to know their own limitations, their lack of understanding of the limits of their own intelligence.....

Thanks for the contribution guys but criticize what it lacks, show us also why it is a bad idea as well, put both sides, talk about the whole problem, how are you going to solve population, declining food stocks.. good start but must do better and acknowledge in some ways you lack wisdom and go and see James Lovelock.......