tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post4948868731403920629..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: Climate Change Quick Fixes - The Cure Can Be Deadlier Than The DiseaseThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-45453868024086667152014-02-27T08:11:56.113-08:002014-02-27T08:11:56.113-08:00Hey, Troy. I don't think I'll be able to ...Hey, Troy. I don't think I'll be able to make it. I'm tending to my beagle who's on his way out. I don't know how much longer he's got but...<br /><br />BTW, I took your comment and put it up as a separate post. <br /><br />@PLG - I think the worst and usually unmentioned part of geoengineering is the prospect of powerful nations going rogue; acting independently with options they believe suit their circumstances without regard to consequences that may be borne elsewhere. For some reason Russia and the U.S. come to mind. Not sure why.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-14604844130324029472014-02-26T01:56:05.316-08:002014-02-26T01:56:05.316-08:00The reforestation option might not be so bad. Yes...The reforestation option might not be so bad. Yes, our primary approach needs to be quitting with the greenhouse gases, and this in any case has a big set of side benefits (no fricking pipelines, for instance, no mountaintop removal coal mining, better air quality, all that).<br /><br />But it seems clear we've come so far that an extra bit of pull-back would be welcome--if it wasn't some kind of engineering gimmick that relied on treating a complicated system full of feedbacks as it were a simple physics box with three things in it, and on being able to predict the impacts of doing something completely new in the immensely complex place that the world is.<br /><br />But having far more trees than we currently have is a state the world has often (even usually) been in before. And most of the world's deserts are geologically quite young. I think reforesting wouldn't be quite as vulnerable as these guys are saying. Forests tend to have an effect on rainfall and groundwater patterns just by existing; they might well be more self-sustaining than one would expect.Purple library guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01930984683714519212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-3019293056789355552014-02-25T19:56:47.877-08:002014-02-25T19:56:47.877-08:00Incidentally, there's a march at the Vancouver...Incidentally, there's a march at the Vancouver Art Gallery on March 1st, starting at 1pm, if you're able to make it.<br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1434475403436687/?ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular" rel="nofollow">Omnibus March Against Harper</a><br /><br />I probably won't be able to make it, considering I live so far away.Troyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10759047914577194212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-80007701596551433232014-02-25T19:52:25.323-08:002014-02-25T19:52:25.323-08:00When the white people first appeared, the elders o...When the white people first appeared, the elders of my people recognized in a few of the white people a frightening mental illness: greed. It drove those people to want more and more and more. Far more than they needed. Far more than any person would ever need in their entire lives.<br />And now, this illness has driven all of the earth's population to this point.<br />The elders had no cure for those people afflicted with this illness. Or rather, the afflicted white man already had good cures available, but these people did not avail themselves of them.<br />We all need less in this world. We need less luxury. We need less sprawl. We need less pollution. We need less of the shit they dig out of the earth, and more trees and plants planted back into it. We need less of this civilization and we need more nature. We need far less of what we don't need, and probably we could do with a little less of what we do need, too.<br />We need to learn to make do with less, because in the harsh future I see coming headed straight at us, we'll have to do so, regardless of what we want.Troyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10759047914577194212noreply@blogger.com