Yes. Can we capture that thought in one word? The word could become the counterpoint to "geoengineering". Ideally, proponents of mitigation, adaptation, and geoengineering could agree on the need to stop __________.
"klutzyliving" "clusterf______" "SNAFU" (unfortunately some of the best words may be military acronyms not spelled out in polite society)
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Subject: Re: [geo] Re: Oli Morton with Opinion Article on "Nitrogen
Geoengineering"
From: Stephen Salter <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, July 14, 2013 2:05 am
To: [email protected]
Could the Royal Society define human life in advanced and advancing economies as
"the ignorant and large scale manipulation of the planetary environment regardless of the effects on anything."
Stephen
Emeritus Professor of Engineering Design School of Engineering University of Edinburgh Mayfield Road Edinburgh EH9 3JL Scotland [email protected] Tel +44 (0)131 650 5704 Cell 07795 203 195 WWW.see.ed.ac.uk/~shs
On 14/07/2013 01:05, Russell Seitz wrote:
In writing of " homogocene issues " Oliver Morton has floated a variation of the theme of the 'anthropocene ' that might take on a life of its own .
Though Greek-Latin portmanteau words are deservedly suspect , there has long been a need for an adjective to designate and reify a very important ecological consequence of the age of exploration-- the nonchalant homogenization of the biosphere that arose from the intercontinental exchange of flora via the botanical gardens of the imperial powers of the 18th and 19th centuries.
By darwin's day, every nation had one , and they collectively transferred such no-longer-exotics as rhododendrons, eucalypts and arucaria, to name but a few, together with their symbionts and soil fauna, from uninhabited regions and obscure refugia to the four corners of the earth.
There's no getting around it- the Homogocene is to the Anthropocene as the Pleistocene is to the Holocene--
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