Maybe our fate is sealed and we will not be able to stand the test of time as a species ... in the long run. But that does not relieve us from the responsibility we have towards our children and other future generations who will live to see the light of day. Moreover, think of how communities of people around the world have dealt with major disaster through the ages. Humanity always proved to be very adaptive and its economic behaviour not just governed by present day 'greedy consumerism'. Sure, that behaviour dominates actual pursuits, but that does not mean we will continue to act like that under any circumstances. The image of mankind behaving like the mythical frog in water that's slowly heated to boiling point, is to my personal view, erroneous and shows ignorance of essential aspects of humanity.
We must act and we will. Question is when and how. One option is to wait and see and act on effects (feedback), another would be to preview and act on expectations (feedforward) as to avoid overshoot and minimize the impact of more-or-less anticipated effects on humanity and the systems we depend on. We have chosen for the second option and call upon the scientific community to more actively support the processes required to act in time and with appropriate measures. To our POV that will require more active participation in our control systems and we are willing to enable just that. It will take time and incredible efforts, but there's a good chance it will be worth it. Founder of The SHEW Initiative -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens Taiwan Calling Verzonden: vrijdag 26 januari 2007 13:07 Aan: [email protected] Onderwerp: [Global Change: 1188] Fwd: http://climatechange3000.blogspot. com ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Taiwan Calling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jan 26, 2007 10:07 AM Subject: http://climatechange3000.blogspot.com To: dan bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://climatechange3000.blogspot.com read this carefully. agree? disagree? tell me your POV? Charles -- 丹布隆: Chinese http://danbloom888.blogspot.com http://www.epochtw.com/5/9/3/10258.htm English: http://www.taiwanho.com/people/dan IF YOU NEED A SMILE: MY POEM: http://www.dobhran.com/greetings/GRchildseyes.htm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
