On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 3:23 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Sat, 03 May 2014 15:50:40 +0000, Denis McMahon wrote: > >> On Sat, 03 May 2014 06:51:02 -0700, icesti2014editor wrote: >> >>> sharing best practice in the field of Engineering, Science, and >>> Technology towards sustainable development. >> >>> The first event of this conference series (ICESTI 2014) will be held in >>> Bali, Indonesia >> >> Let's all fly to Bali in the name of sustainability and preserving the >> planet, and damn the CO2 created by doing so. > > Pennywise and pound-foolish perhaps? If spending a few thousand tonnes of > CO2 enables the saving of a few million tonnes, I think that would be > well worth it.
And if setting up a Mailman list to discuss the exact same content would be as effective as a conference, then it would be anything but. We can't know. What we *do* know is that putting the word "sustainable" into a proposal makes it a lot easier for people to get funding. Even more so, further down, "Climate Change Mitigation". For better or for worse, that's how a lot of the world allocates money. By the way, thank you both for saying "CO2" and not "carbon". If I had a black balloon for every time someone talked about how much carbon was created in such-and-such, I could make my own global warming advert... ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list