Discover Our End - Raymo Restraint

Since childhood, we are all told to watch out for chemicals. We have to watch out for laundry detergent, bleach, and dishwasher fluid. Even the health inducing handsoap was considered a fatal execution in the mouth. The unknown was always dangerous. Naturally, most children’s curiosity outweigh the thoughts of consequences and harm is done. This sort of experimentation is done consecutively throughout childhood, learning lessons of what not to deal with. Unfortunately, the main lesson is never learned. The caution that needs to be tied with venturing seems to always fall short. Chet Raymo’s piece “A Measure of Restraint” addresses this problem. It seems that humanity will never learn its lesson. Humans will always strive to be better, faster, flashier, and stronger. So often is does the gung-ho mentality backfire and can sometimes hurt more than it helps. Radiation alone contributes to many of these mistakes. Enhanced foods and pesticides harm the necessities of food. Even the air we breathe is contaminated for the want of speed and convenience. If this trend continues, the Earth and even all living beings will begin to deteriorate. Things that were not meant to be discovered could ultimately discover our downfall. The curiosity really could kill the cat this time. The child burnt by the stove. The mouse too far in the mousetrap. The human too deep into science.