We have to believe in a world without war – and science should lead the way
John Polanyi is a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in chemistry. This piece is adapted from remarks made at Toronto’s Massey College on Nov. 3.
I went in search of other venturesome students, and learned of a student-faculty group opposing the stationing of U.S. nuclear weapons in Canada. I joined them in writing an appeal to prime minister John Diefenbaker that I circulated to my new chemistry colleagues. An unfazed Bladen came back to me with a plane ticket to Moscow so I would not feel beholden to the Soviet Union. I do remain beholden today – but to U of T.
Today, I believe only radical actions can save us. We must reshape history. Ours must be an age of abolition; it has already been marked by an end to slavery, and we must soon see an end to female servitude, an end to environmental degradation and, above all, an end to threats of mass destruction.Science requires us to see the world anew. A guide to doing so came from H.G. Wells in his science-fiction novel,.
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