IMO, we have left ourselves no choice but to take very serious action on all three fronts: mitigation, adaptation, and geoengineering. The lock-in effects of already-emitted CO2, current infrastructure, projected sea level rise, etc. all mean that we can't escape some very painful and expensive impacts. Minimizing these effects means drawing a line in the atmosphere, so to speak, and not making things worse, changing/protecting our population centers and infrastructure where we can, and employing as much SRM and CDR as we can manage (politically and economically) to hasten the return to normalcy.
In general, I find it incredibly frustrating how often I see online discussions (not in this group, obviously) that assume we can focus on just one of these three areas and "save ourselves" from the impacts of CC. That's horribly naive, IMO, and more than a little dangerous, considering what's at stake. On Monday, November 11, 2013 10:17:21 AM UTC-5, andrewjlockley wrote: > > Retooling the Planet: The False Promise of Geoengineering > > by ETC Group, originally published by Post Carbon Institute/Foundation for > Deep Ecology > This essay comes from the book ENERGY: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of > Endless Growth > Published by the Foundation for Deep Ecology in collaboration with > Watershed Media and Post Carbon Institute. > > http://www.scribd.com/doc/174906270/Retooling-the-Planet > -- 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 geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
