Chris, > the challenge (and task of > green engineering) is to develop ways to minimize PER CAPITA pollution, > so these metrics are counter-productive. Reducing per capita pollution whilst increasing the capitas is spinning wheels in the mud. It sounds like either techno-optimist Julian Simon (who had no clue about exponentials, saying the earth could grow population indefinitely) OR it assumes that humans are rational and will support a Technocracy (look it up) governance which is counter to our reptilian brain dominance (sex & emotion) Keith Hudson has it right!
> > We have to keep in mind that "emissions trading" schemes (from the same > folks who make up these misleading metrics) are just a new variation of > stock-broker speculations / stock casino gambling by profiteers who don't > give a damn about the environment or engineering, nor have any idea of it. > From them you can't expect sustainable solutions, You'd better check just who developed the ecological footprint model at U of British Columbia :Mathis Wackernagel & Bill Rees (whom I know personally) Also see who is on the board of the Footprint Network and who funds them. You are dead wrong about them. Steve _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
