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Thomas Jefferson wrote Whenever the people are we in ormed, they can be trus e with ther own gover men eferson lette t R hard rice an ar 99 This phrase is the heart of American Democracy and much like Adam Smith's invisible hand guide the economic marketplace, there is an invisible hand of the people's will that guide local, state, and national affairs. However, today that invisible hand seems confused and indecisive. Congress is paralyzed and unable to act on many key issues that not only threaten the U.S.A. but issues that threaten the planet. Ideology and rhetoric increasingly guide policy; replacing fact and reason and the America we now know seems divide and angry, defiantly embracing Over the course of the next forty years, science is poised to create more knowledge than humans have created in all of recorded history. At the same time we are facing challenges that include climate change and energy, ocean acidification and overfishing; biodiversity loss and habitat fragmentation; pandemics and biosecurity management (think ebola); freshwater resource management; transportation; waste management; chemical, biological, nanotechnological, and genetic pollution (think atrazine), population control; national security, science education and economic competitiveness; and economic growth on a finite planet. We have a tremendous opportunity to be a shining light on a hill, a beacon, an example to the rest of the world if we but use facts, and science to deal with these issues Here is the rub... In some places in the US the science literacy is less than 1 5%. That means less that 1 5% of the population is able to understand science enough to implement it in a way that is helpful to society Our Congress less than 2% o congress has a scientific background. They are lawyers who are trained to win arguments not discover . My questions is; at what point will we no longer have enough scientific literacy to be trusted with our own government? I do not ever want to get to that point yet there are well organized, well finances groups that are pushing us toward not only scientific illiteracy but ignorance and a lack of education as well. They put huge demands on students and then do not give them the resources they need to be successful. Share your thoughts about how close/far we are from no longer having enough science literacy to be trusted with our own government. There are no wrong answers but l would like to see some thought. I am not asking if we can trust our government, I am asking if we have enough science literacy to be trusted with our own government.

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In our country or even in world politics,governments, corporates or even in society almost all have been become selfish for themselves growth not has any moral and credibility. In education every government tends to enhanced their literacy rate not tends to make future for students. Businessman tends to enhance his turn over without any responsibility for nature or human beings. In every field we can say that everyone have become in such a way that he ruined other for his success. But by enhancing the skill, science or even by creating moral duty for our government we can fight with this problem.

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