You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?

If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.

Politically speaking, of course, they have to keep flying it a bit longer. Hopefully, it will close down before they crash it again.

The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.

Just because you see pictures of glaciers falling into the ocean doesn't mean anything bad is happening. This is something that happens all the time. It's part of the natural cycle of things. We know from measurements that glaciers have been melting for 200 years at least.

The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.