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Publications  Wednesday, 26 September 2007 00:00  Ending the
curse of Babel may be our only, best chance  Written by   By
Arthur Hancock   — Ecclesiastes 9:4  Do you agree with the
following sentence? The survival of the human race is more
important than anything else on Earth.  What does this statement
mean? It means that the continuation of the human species is
more important than freedom, liberty, custom, heritage, country,
religion, private property, privacy, you name it. There is
absolutely nothing more vital than the survival of human kind.
Four billion years of earthly evolution has produced a creature
capable of going from horse and buggy to space shuttle in less
than 100 years. For all its faults, homo sapiens represent the
crowning achievement of our little blue planet.  Yet our days as
a species may well be numbered. The twin threats of
thermonuclear war and environmental collapse pose an
unprecedented threat to our survival. We may be the ver