"Conserve" isn't really right because we've been "anthroforming" Terra since the beginning of the Holocene -- 15 kya domestication of animals and dogs, 12 kya mass extinctions, 8 kya rice/methane if you believe William Ruddiman, 3000 ya agriculture, deforestation of Greece, 1750 industrial era ..;.For better or worse Holocene == conserve.
I'd like to find a word that conveys human appropriation of net primary productivity -- HANPPoforming? --- Fred Zimmerman Geoengineering IT! Bringing together the worlds of geoengineering and information technology GE NewsFilter: http://geoengineeringIT.net:8080 On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Russell Seitz <[email protected]>wrote: > Ken, I suspect the word you are looking for is " conserve". > > Anthroform is what God does to dust in Genesis , and<a href=" > http://www.myopiapolo.org";> the myopeconforms hereabouts</a> are already > a fairly green lot. > > > On Saturday, May 25, 2013 5:23:28 PM UTC-4, Ken Caldeira wrote: >> >> Maybe the word is "anthroform" --.transforming the Earth to better meet >> human needs. >> >> This could perhaps be contrasted with "naturaform" -- transforming the >> Earth to better meet the needs of existing natural systems. >> >> These both could be contrasted with our current policy: "myopeconoform" >> -- transforming the Earth as a consequence of efforts to maximize >> short-term economic objectives. >> >> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
