Thank you for sharing this video. Dr. Tyson's message is very similar to Dr. Sagan's, who also continuously shared the fact that critical thinking also referred to as "hypothesis", is a skill that is necessary if we are to solve Earth's problems.

Neil has said "To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit".

If that's the case, Neil's fans must be scientifically illiterate. Neil has dropped one steaming pile after another and his fans eat it up without question. [hopsblog-hop.blogspot.com]

The sanctimonious hypocrite is trying to get a mote out of his neighbor's eye when he has a log in his own.

Ok, so you want to accept everything science has to offer, citing you accept the findings on climate change but now are you willing to accept IQ differences in races, the differences in personality traits between men and women that perpetuate the wage gap and that the increase in oestrogen and related compounds in the water (which are certainly having an effect on the sexuality and gender of fish and frogs) might be affecting people in the same ways? Being a scientist means accepting all those things have strong evidence backing them.

If one is a follower of Jared Diamond - "Guns, Germs and Steel"- (which I am) the answer is geography.

The problem, world wide, of today is a denial of limited resources and ever increasing demands. History has shown, over and over, that when resources dwindle the increase in competition for those resources increase. We break into tribes to decide who gets what and religion is the first tribe to be formed. Women and children always come last. This is the political issue that should have been taken generations ago that Tyson talked about. It is based on science, social science.