I am a new guy around here. That means I may at times reinvent a "wheel."
That's what I think I will try for this morning. The world is in
trouble--geoengineering is one approach to the problems. Humankind went
through a somewhat similar crisis about twelve thousand years ago (my
view). We were strugging with overpopulation and driving vast numbers of
species to extinction. The problem was solved--I think we should say that
the answer was geoengineering--we learned how to better manage our
environment. We moved dirt around, added chemicals and propagated seeds
that helped the situation. And we built water systems. We mostly gave up
the former hunter-gatherer way of living off the land and switched to
"farming." And gave up wearing animal skins (resource depletion) and
learned to weave plant fibers. The environmentalists back then must have
been horrified.
Today there are engineering schools for how best to work with
dirt--agricultural engineering. Sad to say, there are holdouts that still
want to keep the old ways and sometimes don't realize they are part of the
problem. The hunter-gatherer mentality is still alive in the oceans of the
world. They don't plant or nourish, but they still expect to harvest. We
need a more comprehensive schools of engineering: geoengineering schools.
They can help us to deal with those old problems, overpopulation and loss
of species, AND take on the new problems like climate change (waste
management).
My view: we can do a lot about all of these problems by learning how
to better manage the oceans, or, should we say, the biosphere.
Ernie Rogers
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