ANN DRUYAN TALKS COSMOS POSSIBLE WORLDS

The original Cosmos TV series was released almost 40 years ago. Has peoples’ interest in science and the universe increased in this time?

I feel that there’s been a kind of war against science in the US. I certainly can’t speak for other countries, but what has changed is in 1980, when Carl Sagan and I did the original Cosmos, there was still a kind of great dream of a wonderful future. In episode four of the original series, we talked about climate change. The scientists well knew what we are all experiencing now. It was a different atmosphere because the respect for science, and I can