Fixing climate change is going to take some time and effort, on several fronts simultaneously
We're not going to fix (i.e. go back to early 20th century) it. For the next century it's only getting worse. At best we can try to slow down the rate at which it's getting worse.
It should be possible to figure out which it is by comparing the genome of the resistant bacteria, and see if they have common genes for the resistance.
But I don't see why it would be so difficult for the local bacteria to develop resistance. Many antibiotics are based on stuff we find in nature, and the amazonian tribe probably uses natural substances to fight diseases. Resistance would be a logical result of that.
You can slow down the rate at which bacteria become resistant.
They both are theories, but only one is scientific
Or rather: one is a scientific theory, the other isn't.
Of course, when you write specification "X", there are usually some mistakes. A contractor may spot the mistakes, but follow the letter of the specification anyway. When everything is finished, and you discover that "X" was wrong, you get an additional contract to fix things.
Not always true. Sometimes, he loses the contract and it goes to someone else
That's a matter of skillful management. Make sure that the client is already invested too much, and that the overrun would cost less than finding someone else for the contract. Also, make sure that the original contract is written in a way that the budget is not guaranteed, and that you can blame the overrun on the client (poor specification). And finally, a nice bribe is always helpful.
The leak rate is tiny, right?
You would hope so, but both helium and hydrogen escape fairly rapidly through many common materials.
The reality is that Elon Musk is able to do a good job, because he can destroy two or three recovery barges in a row
The biggest reason is that he really wants to do a good job, because it's his own money and reputation.
If a contractor overruns his budget, and the result is that he gets a bigger budget, where's the motivation to do a good job ?
The pesticides in the plants we eat now other than the GMOs have had a thousand years of human testing
Most of that 1000 years, the testing wasn't very well done. People may have gotten cancer from certain plants without realizing that a certain plant was to blame. Our modern analysis methods can do more in a few years that in the 1000 years before that.
The climate was ideal for growing almonds for a long time. Ripping the trees out at the first big drought could be a mistake. If the drought finally breaks the next year, your trees will be gone, and it will take 5 years before new trees are producing a good amount of fruit.
Pipelines are horrendously inefficient for transfer of fluids except when the alternative is manual batch shipping.
Or when the pipes run down...
They don't have Steve Jobs any more. He would have kicked and screamed that the product wasn't good enough.
Just because the average man and average woman have differences doesn't mean certain men and certain women don't have the exact same motivations, interests, etc. It is not optimal to treat all women the same just because on average they are different than men
No, I think we should let each person be free to pursue whatever education and career they like, and remove as many barriers as possible. But if that leads to women being over-represented in nursing, and men in garbage collection, and both groups are happy with what they're doing, then we don't have a problem that needs fixing.
This isn't discrimination at all, it's providing facilities for each gender that are suited to them.
That would be the case if they also build a STEM school for boys right next to the one for girls.
What is algebra, exactly? Is it one of those three-cornered things? -- J.M. Barrie