This is a very interesting taxonomy. Thank you.
It feels almost as if it were orthogonal to my list; I see it as a set
of constraints under which the problems must be solved, rather than a
set of problems which might intrinsically do us serious damage.
mt
On 9/23/06, Kooiti MASUDA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> In 1996 I wrote that global warming is an interesting issue but not one
> of high priority. Now I think it one of priority issues, but still
> think that it has high priority because it is compounded with other
> problems.
>
> The first compound is with fragmentation of wild life habitat by
> various kinds of "development". It seems that there have been rapid
> climate change before industrialization, for example,
> Dansgaard-Oeschger oscillation during the last interglacial. The
> ecosystem has survived, despite there must have been extinction of
> many individual species. Many others migrated. Now migration is
> hampered by croplands, urban constructions, fences and dams. I think
> that the bleaching of corals is a problem of this category. (I guess
> that migration of such strains of symbiont algae that are tolerant to
> higher temperature is somehow disturbed by human activity.)
>
> The second is with limitations of human migration. The logic is similar
> to the first one, but the main cause of the limitation is difficult --
> in this case, it is social institution such as national borders and
> ownership of land. If someone can design optimal relocation of human
> settlements, it would not be approved by nations.
>
> The third is with "the limits of growth". Now it is obvious that we the
> humans collectively need to reduce our ecological footprint sooner or
> later in order to live sustainably. But, coal could save us a few
> centuries. We can avoid SOx and particulate pollution by burning more
> coals wisely. Prospect of global warming has denied this hope, and we
> have to face the limit sooner than previously expected.
>
> Ko-1 M.
>
>
> >
>
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