Apr 26, 2016
Los poetas, antiguosy modernos, han tratado de describir nuestra pasiones sexuales; los expertos en leyes, de definirlas; y los sacerdotes, de controlarlas.
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Los poetas, antiguosy modernos, han tratado de describir nuestra pasiones sexuales; los expertos en leyes, de definirlas; y los sacerdotes, de controlarlas.
As a nation we spend almost $2 billion a day on defense. According to economist Joseph Stiglitz, the Afghan and Iraq wars will cost us a mind-boggling $3 trillion. And both wars have so far failed to create stable countries. One reason may be that both Afghanistan and Iraq are high-fertility, patriarchal societies, and our intervention did almost nothing to help women. It's not that we don't need an army, and boots on the ground may sometimes be necessary. But the war or terror will continue to fail unless we convert a few days' military expenditure into investing in girls' education and family planning in the Sahel and elsewhere.
Malcolm Potts, "Want to fight terrorism? Educate women" (Los Angeles Times)
Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World
Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World As news of war and terror dominates the headlines, scientist Malcolm Potts and veteran journalist Thomas Hayden take a step back to explain it all. In the spirit of Guns, Germs and Steel, Sex and War asks the basic questions: Why is war so fundamental to our species? And what can we do about it?Malcolm Potts explores these questions from the frontlines, as a witness to war-torn countries around the world. As a scientist and obstetrician, Potts has worked with governments and aid organizations globally, and in the trenches with women who have been raped and brutalized in the course of war. Combining their own experience with scientific findings in primatology, genetics and anthropology, Potts and Hayden explain war’s pivotal position in the human experience and how men in particular evolved under conditions that favored gang behavior, rape and organized aggression. Drawing on these new insights, they propose a rational plan for making warfare less frequent and less brutal in the future.Anyone interested in understanding human nature, warfare, and terrorism at their most fundamental levels will find Sex and War to be an illuminating work, and one that might change the way they see the world.
Our medical successes have a cost. For the first time in literally billions of years of the Earth’s history the activity of one species – our own – has come to dominate the complex biological systems on which all life depends. Indeed, we may have reached already a point where the world’s use of resources and concurrent production of pollutants is jeopardizing the welfare of all our children and grandchildren.
A "King's Speech" That Could Help Save the World: A Discussion with UC-Berkeley's Dr. Malcolm Potts, Forbes
In South Africa on this very day, Dr. Malcolm Potts, Bixby Professor in the School of Public Health at UC-Berkeley has just delivered a bombshell of a speech to a packed crowd of distinguished health professionals representing more than half of the world’s population. Prior to its delivery, Dr. Potts and I spoke about some of the most salient implications and data in his talk, intimations of which he had imparted several years before in our public broadcasting feature film documentary “No Vacancy.” The timing for Dr. Potts’ speech today could not be more eerie. Just yesterday, October 31st, the United Nations officially declared that the human population had hit 7 billion. That definitely puts a new face on the Halloween mask of human nature.
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