Regarding:
http://www.theatlantic.com/life/archive/2011/11/the-coming-green-wave-ocean-farming-to-fight-climate-change/248750/ Pete wrote: > This article is rather disinformative with its use of semi-science > terminology which is simplified to the point of being wrong > .... > Extraordinarily sloppy writing, obviously a techno-illiterate. Thanks, Pete. Was going to write something like that but procrastinated and you beat me to it. It is rumored that way back when I went to collitch, people got a better education than they do today. But I recall those of my contemporaries who were on the humanities side of CP Snows two cultures fulfilled their university science requirement by taking botany 101 and zoology 101. These consisted chiefly of memorizing the taxonomic hierarchies of the plant and animal kingdoms. As a result, for many very bright and (for practical career purposes) well educated people, simple chemistry is a black art and "The Chemicals" is a bogey-man word. It's no wonder that "environmentalism" or "climate change" are seen as political conspiracies when so many people have approximately zero mental tools to evaluate professional pronouncements on the science, never mind the journalistic contributions of techno-illiterates. - Mike -- Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~. /V\ [email protected] /( )\ http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/ ^^-^^ _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
