Okay Mike so you don't think too much of what was said or the guy who said it... We get that but what exactly is wrong with what was written... It presumably went through several levels of quality control (the Atlantic isn't Science, but it it isn't Joe's blog either... Portside also has some cred in some circles...
When I read this one (quickly) it seemed rather interesting... (and I'm not much of a Buck Rogers kind of guy... in that it posited some possible (realistic?) alternatives... So, dropping the (Sci Guy) attitude(s) what exactly doesn't work with this one... M -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Spencer Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 9:54 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Futurework] Re: The Coming Green Wave: Ocean Farming 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 _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
