Hi all
It would help if the ETC people could give more detail about why putting
sea surface temperatures back to where we liked to have them in the good
old days should be criminal. We may be able to do this by changing the
size distribution of 0.5% of the mass of a natural material, shown to
help asthmatic children, which is now being produced from breaking
waves. We may be able to do this with energy coming from the wind at a
cost below the climate conference budget.
ETC, please explain, if possible with some numbers.
Stephen
On 11/05/2017 19:42, Adam Dorr wrote:
While several of the concerns expressed in the document bear some
consideration, I must say I'm discouraged by the overall thinking
behind a priori opposition to climate engineering technology. By
analogy, it would be like opposing the development of dentistry
technologies because they might allow you to continue eating sugar
without damaging your teeth.
The thinking seems to be rooted in the notion that actions with
negative side effects are morally depraved (irrespective of their
concomitant benefits), and that remedying those side effects only
serves to *worsen* the depravity rather than alleviate it. I suspect a
psychology that valorizes self-deprivation and self-flaggelation is at
work here, but that isn't my field.
Regardless of whatever psychology is involved, I think it is clear
that this orientation toward any specific technology cannot withstand
any scrutiny since countless examples of its hypocrisy (e.g. the
benefits of dentistry and all the other accouterments of modernity)
immediately emerge.
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On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 1:08 PM, Andrew Lockley
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Climate change, smoke and mirrors
Latest missive from etc group.
A
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