Re: Nobel Laureates Issue Dire Warning

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Nobel Laureates Issue Dire Warning 

Nobel Message regarding these times  ~~ This statement from a diverse and

impress list of 104 Nobel Laureates is quite impressive and sobering.  May we

open our hearts and minds to the challenges of these times and awaken to a

deeper wisdom, compassion, and inspired activity [].

OSLO, Norway (OTVNewswire) -- At the Nobel Peace Prize Centennial Symposium

here yesterday celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Nobel prize, 100

Nobel laureates have issued a brief but dire warning of the " profound

dangers " facing the world. Their statement predicts that our security depends

on immediate environmental and social reform. The following is the text of

their statement:

THE STATEMENT

The most profound danger to world peace in the coming years will stem not

from the irrational acts of states or individuals but from the legitimate

demands of the world's dispossessed. Of these poor and disenfranchised, the

majority live a marginal existence in equatorial climates. Global warming,

not of their making but originating with the wealthy few, will affect their

fragile ecologies most. Their situation will be desperate and manifestly

unjust.

It cannot be expected, therefore, that in all cases they will be content to

await the beneficence of the rich. If then we permit the devastating power of

modern weaponry to spread through this combustible human landscape, we invite

a conflagration that can engulf both rich and poor. The only hope for the

future lies in co-operative international action, legitimized by democracy.

It is time to turn our backs on the unilateral search for security, in which 

we seek to shelter behind walls. Instead, we must persist in the quest for

united action to counter both global warming and a weaponized world. These

twin goals will constitute vital components of stability as we move toward

the wider degree of social justice that alone gives hope of peace.

Some of the needed legal instruments are already at hand, such as the

Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, the Convention on Climate Change, the

Strategic Arms Reduction Treaties and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. As

concerned citizens, we urge all governments to commit to these goals that

constitute steps on the way to replacement of war by law.

To survive in the world we have transformed, we must learn to think in a new 

way. As never before, the future of each depends on the good of all.

THE SIGNATORIES

Zhohres I. Alferov, Physics, 2000

Sidney Altman, Chemistry, 1989

Philip W. , Physics, 1977

Arias , Peace, 1987

J. Georg Bednorz, Physics, 1987

Bishop F.X. Belo, Peace, 1996

Baruj Benacerraf, Physiology/Medicine, 1980

Hans A. Bethe, Physics, 1967

W. Black, Physiology/Medicine, 1988

Guenter Blobel, Physiology/Medicine, 1999

Nicolaas Bloembergen, Physics, 1981

Norman E. Boriaug, Peace, 1970

D. Boyer, Chemistry, 1997

Bertram N. Brockhouse, Physics, 1994

Herbert C. Brown, Chemistry, 1979

s Charpak, Physics, 1992

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Physics, 1997

W. Cornforth, Chemistry, 1975

Francis H. Crick, Physiology/Medicine, 1962

W. Cronin, Physics, 1980

J. Crutzen, Chemistry, 1995

F. Curl, Chemistry, 1996

His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Peace, 1989

Johann Deisenhofer, Chemistry, 1988

C. Doherty, Physiology/Medicine, 1996

Manfred Eigen, Chemistry, 1967

R. Ernst, Chemistry, 1991

Leo Esaki, Physics, 1973

Edmond H. Fischer, Physiology/Medicine, 1992

Val L. Fitch, Physics, 1980

Dario Fo, Literature, 1997

F. Furchgott, Physiology/Medicine, 1998

Walter Gilbert, Chemistry, 1980

Sheldon L. Glashow, Physics, 1979

Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Peace, 1990

Nadine Gordimer, Literature, 1991

Greengard, Physiology/Medicine, 2000

Guillemin, Physiology/Medicine, 1977

Herbert A. Hauptman, Chemistry, 1985

Dudley R. Herschbach, Chemistry, 1986

Antony Hewish, Physics, 1974

Roald Hoffman Chemistry, 1981

Gerardus 't Hooft, Physics, 1999

H. Hubel, Physiology/Medicine, 1981

Huber, Chemistry, 1988

Francois , Physiology/Medicine, 1975

D. phson, Physics, 1973

Jerome Karle, Chemistry, 1985

Wolfgang Ketterle, Physics, 2001

H. Gobind Khorana, Physiology/Medicine, 1968

Lawrence R. Klein, Economics, 1980

Klaus von Klitzing, Physics, 1985

Klug, Chemistry, 1982

Walter Kohn, Chemistry, 1998

Herbert Kroemer, Physics, 2000

Harold Kroto, Chemistry, 1996

Willis E. Lamb, Physics, 1955

Leon M. Lederman, Physics, 1988

Yuan T. Lee, Chemistry, 1986

Jean-Marie Lehn, Chemistry, 1987

Rita Levi-Montalcini, Physiology/Medicine, 1986

N. Lipscomb, Chemistry, 1976

Alan G. MacDiarmid, Chemistry, 2000

L. McFadden, Economics, 2000

César Milstein, Physiology/Medicine, 1984

Franco Modigliani, Economics, 1985

Rudolf L. Moessbauer, Physics, 1961

J. Molina, Chemistry, 1995

Ben R. Mottelson, Physics, 1975

Ferid Murad, Physiology/Medicine, 1998

Erwin Neher, Physiology/Medicine, 1991

Marshall W. Nirenberg, Physiology/Medicine, 1968

ph E. Murray, Physiology/Medicine, 1990

M. Nurse, Physiology/Medicine, 2001

Max F. Perutz, Chemistry, 1962

D. , Physics, 1997

C. Polanyi, Chemistry, 1986

Ilya Prigogine, Chemistry, 1977

Burton Richter, Physics, 1976

Heinrich Rohrer, Physics, 1987

ph Rotblat, Peace, 1995

Carlo Rubbia, Physics, 1984

Bert Sakmann, Physiology/Medicine, 1991

Frederick Sanger, Chemistry, 1958; 1980

José Saramago, Literature, 1998

J. Schrieffer, Physics, 1972

Melvin Schwartz, Physics, 1988

K. Barry Sharpless, Chemistry, 2001

E. Smalley, Chemistry, 1996

Jack Steinberger, Physics, 1988

ph E. Stiglitz, Economics, 2001

Horst L. Stormer, Physics, 1998

Henry Taube, Chemistry, 1983

ph H. , Jr., Physics, 1993

Susumu Tonegawa, Physiology/Medicine, 1997

H. Townes, Physics, 1964

T. Tsui, Physics, 1998

Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu, Peace, 1984

Vane, Physiology/Medicine, 1982

E. , Chemistry, 1997

F. Wieschaus, Physiology/Medicine, 1982

Jody , Peace, 1997

W. , Physics, 1978

Ahmed H. Zewail, Chemistry, 1999

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