Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
And if the current natural variation is greater than the
anthropogenic component of the variation -- and natural variations
in the past have certainly exceeded anything humans can do -- then
we or our descendents will have to adapt to warmer climates
anyway, probably technologically, or die out. ....
Yes. People will not want to die out. Technological adaptation means
funding education and research to find technological solutions.
Moreover, that means funding hydrogen and hydrogen-boron fusion
research in the hope that those who have said that
Fusion power is thirty years away
for a long time are wrong.
People -- such as real estate owners and agribusinesses -- will want
to minimize their financial losses, even if the causes are natural.
This means there will be costs.
As a model, consider the current action of real estate operators to
the natural movement of beaches: get the US taxpayer to pay for beach
walls and berms via the US Army Corp of Engineers.
... Some say that instead of restricting the technology which may
allow us to adapt and survive we ought to go ahead and use our
intelligence ....
Yes. And that means finding how to adapt and survive. That in turn
means raising taxes to pay for more education and more research.
Education for everyone has to be an entitlement, like perceived
justice. Otherwise, the system suffers friction. When we are making
this kind of adaptation, everything helps.
Adapting the local environment to our needs is expensive!
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