i.e. this:
Sunshine may mirror the apocalyptic tone of current debates over climate change but Garland, says Boyle, deliberately chose an alternative future: the earth getting colder and science as a saviour. Boyle, however, agrees his film is about the hubris of science. He tried to imbue his actors with the "uncompromising, cold eye" of scientists. He lowers his voice again. "Brian Cox is the nicest guy, but he's so arrogant. I used to tell the actors to watch the way he'll just go 'no'. He works at Cern, where they are looking for this particle they nickname the God particle. There is a tiny, tiny chance that when they collide these protons they'll create a black hole into which we'll all disappear. I said, 'You're still going ahead with it?' He said, 'Don't worry about it, you won't know anything about it [if it happens].' Everything will be gone!
"We had this argument in the bar last night. He said it's absolutely critical we use nuclear power and Cillian said, 'What about the Irish sea? It's so polluted and there's all these leukaemia clusters.' And Cox went, 'If we use nuclear power we can give light and food to a million people in Africa and you're worried about a few hundred people in Ireland?'"
UGH!
i hate the arrogance of many scientists, working on theories as though they were universal truths when the one universal truth of science is that everything is merely a theory
one that may or may not actually prove to be the most true notion of what is happening int he world as we live it...
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