The best place kicker is not the best running back, is not the best quarter-mile sprinter, is not the best violinist, is not the best family provider, is not the best poet, is not the best general in war, is not the best general in peace, is not the best fighter pilot, is not the best mathematics professor, is not the best law librarian, is not the best electrical engineer, is not the best writer and cartoonist, is not the best magician, is not the best volunteer fire fighter, is not the best software engineer, is not the best computer motherboard designer, is not the best Web surfer, is not the best medical diagnostician, is not the best conflict arbitrator, is not the best international spy, is not . . .

ethnocentrism, racism, intolerance...  Because they rank the rich complexity of the value of man through extremely pinched vision of the measure of man. 

Some like it cold (skiers?); some like it hot (swimmers?)
Some like it in a crowd; some not.

epidemics   Because broad based medical care was denied.
injustice Because the narrow letter of the law was seen; the rich tapestry of reality wasn't—and too few saw "The Case for Innocence"...or perhaps too few understood it.
repeated computer crashes   Because preventing "piracy" produced bloated code.
disrupted ecological webs  Because preserving familiar jobs blinded us to the webs.

It's much easier to see my choice than all those others.

The often wild fluctuations of gambling hide inexorable and slow movements of money, movements that are quite predictable...in the long run.  They also tempt the gullible who may be to all too willing to ignore their losses, while lovingly cherishing their wins.

For many, predicting the future is an impenetrable mystery.  Information theory and entropy are merely academic abstractions. *

addiction to gambling  Because statistical fluctuation isn't "seen," nor are unfavorable outcomes.
water disappears from our predictions  Because we didn't "see" the random fluctuations in the rainfall that filled our reservoir.
flooded housing  Because the floodplain we built on has been dry for as long as we can remember.
stock market wipe-outs  Because irrational exuberance pollutes the good advice,  "Buy low, sell high."   And randomness corrupts "market timing."
 

Statistics is a thinker's mathematical tool for confronting the random multiple causes and effects that buffet us about.

Astrology tells us many things science could not possible tell us because science sorts the relevant from the irrelevant, eliminates (often unseen) logical absurdities, and seeks predictions that have the highest odds possible of actually happening (and understands how to do that).

horoscopes  Because their relevance is random.
pseudoscience Because wishful thinking often replaces observation, and the logic of multiple cause and effect is usually "missed," leading to misconception.
simplistic "solutions" with disastrous outcomes  Because there's more to the world than the obvious and the "obvious."

Science is...observation, analysis, theory—tightly woven into a firm fabric. 

We will solve a different problem:
the population explosion.

war  Because each side is blind to the mutual "do unto others."
tyranny Because each side is blind to the mutual "do unto others," and one side is bigger—and it might be us.
terrorism The little guy fights back using the depraved tools of a big guy.
ethnocentrism, racism, intolerance...  Because they rank the rich complexity of the value of man through extremely pinched vision of the measure of man.