A briefing paper for California candidates
By Patrick Ruckert
March 28, 2022
www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20220402-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report-Candidate-Briefing.pdf?_t=1648920500
“As the great Ukrainian-Russian scientist Vladimir Vernadsky demonstrated, rather than man merely adjusting to “nature,” man is not only created by nature, but is nature’s most perfect creation, in that, unlike the rest of nature, man is a willfully creative force in the universe. That creative power has given the human species the power to adjust nature to accord with mankind’s needs and well-being; to reshape nature’s processes by increasing man’s understanding of the principles of the universe, which are really only known to man by the effects of his action on that universe. That is how mankind knows the future—because he creates it from his imagination, an imagination that brings into
being that which never before existed.”
From: “Are We Controlled by the Whims of Nature, or Will We Create Our Future?”: A review of the book: “The West Without Water: What Past Floods, Droughts, and Other Climatic Clues Tell Us About Tomorrow,” by B. Lynn Ingram and Frances Malamud-Roam.
