tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post9165570600341993620..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: Rolling the Dice - Geo-Engineering the PlanetThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-38140986006765981522010-12-01T04:41:31.747-08:002010-12-01T04:41:31.747-08:00What makes geo-engineering worrisome for me is tha...What makes geo-engineering worrisome for me is that it will come down to a political decision. As I have lamented so often in this blog, modern political decision-making has shed the ethical element that we once understood was essential. By this I mean posterity. <br /><br />Because posterity doesn't vote, today's politicians aren't forward looking. Their focus is pretty much limited by the current electoral cycle and the one following. That, in turn, sees them give undue consideration to factors that may not be helpful in the long run or may even be inconsistent with or contradictory to long-term needs.<br /><br />The decision-making may be swayed by budgeting and trade issues, for example, or specific regional considerations that favour the strongest and wealthiest regions over the others. It may easily overwhelm the global or biospheric perspective we'll need in the long run.<br /><br />Given three or four options, the modern political decision is likely to favour the best immediate conditions at the expense of future generations.<br /><br />I suppose what I'm trying to say is that I have not seen the calibre of political decision making we'll be needing to tackle something as potentially dangerous as geo-engineering.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-73890466709851071492010-12-01T00:15:10.350-08:002010-12-01T00:15:10.350-08:00All this does is make those of us who know Global ...All this does is make those of us who know Global warming to be true, shake our heads in dis-belief.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-73299655347542023532010-11-30T18:32:29.877-08:002010-11-30T18:32:29.877-08:00scary stuff
when i first heard of it, i thought ho...scary stuff<br />when i first heard of it, i thought how the wealthy will buy some for a special function: such as a summer wedding for a son or daughter<br />the CBCshow :Playing God with Planet Earth was excellent.There were thoughtful scientists but the gungho ones were scary with their aggressive attitudesOemissionshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15052778663890940687noreply@blogger.com