Re: [geo] Plan C

2017-05-07 Thread NORTHCOTT Michael
arsh...@uts.edu.au> Cc: geoengineering@googlegroups.com<mailto:geoengineering@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: [geo] Plan C Steven Hawking has said this about moving planets before. This is why ultra physics is in some ways part of the problem. It makes people think purely in terms of equations and poss

RE: [geo] Plan C

2017-05-07 Thread Bernard Mercer
neering@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [geo] Plan C Steven Hawking has said this about moving planets before. This is why ultra physics is in some ways part of the problem. It makes people think purely in terms of equations and possibility theorems. Neil Young considered this escape option more

Re: [geo] Plan C

2017-05-06 Thread David Appell
>> "There is one home planet. We need to clean up our act." But besides our dirty environment and climate change, the human species is also threatened by global nuclear war, bioterrorism, pandemics, genetic engineering run amok, asteroid strikes, megavolcanoes, economic collapse,

Re: [geo] Plan C

2017-05-06 Thread NORTHCOTT Michael
glegroups.com<mailto:geoengineering@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: [geo] Plan C I don't think Hawkins is talking 6-7B people, but a select few who could keep the species going somewhere. Who gets to stay and who gets to go and why ought to pose a moral dilemma that could keep our ethicis

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2017-05-05 Thread Jonathan Marshall
PM To: geoengineering@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [geo] Plan C I don't think Hawkins is talking 6-7B people, but a select few who could keep the species going somewhere. Who gets to stay and who gets to go and why ought to pose a moral dilemma that could keep our ethicist friends busy for yea

Re: [geo] Plan C

2017-05-05 Thread Greg Rau
7 7:46 PM Subject: Re: [geo] Plan C Yes, another problem is that Hawkins forgets how much energy and effort we would have to expend to get 6-7 billion people to another planet, and for them to be able to live afterwards Even getting a couple of thousand people would be a truly enormous effort

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2017-05-05 Thread Jonathan Marshall
, build asteroid defense units etc jon From: geoengineering@googlegroups.com <geoengineering@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Greg Rau <gh...@sbcglobal.net> Sent: Saturday, 6 May 2017 10:22 AM To: geoengineering@googlegroups.com Subject:

Re: [geo] Plan C

2017-05-05 Thread Greg Rau
Relatedly: "We would need 1.7 Earths to make our consumption sustainable" https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/world/ecological-footprint/?utm_term=.c919e5a6a5c4 Sent from my iPhone > On May 5, 2017, at 5:22 PM, Greg Rau wrote: > > >

[geo] Plan C

2017-05-05 Thread Greg Rau
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/tomorrows-world/television "Professor Stephen Hawking thinks the human species will have to populate a new planet within 100 years if it is to survive. With climate change, overdue asteroid strikes, epidemics and population growth, our own planet is

[geo] Plan C?

2011-04-26 Thread Hawkins, Dave
Our first neo-Mayan governor Gov. Perry Issues Proclamation for Days of Prayer for Rain in TexasThursday, April 21, 2011Austin, TexasProclamation TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME: WHEREAS, the state of Texas is in the midst of an exceptional drought, with some parts of the state

Re: [geo] Plan C?

2011-04-26 Thread Hawkins, Dave
http://governor.state.tx.us/news/proclamation/16038/ - Original Message - From: David Keith [mailto:ke...@ucalgary.ca] Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 08:00 PM To: Hawkins, Dave Subject: Re: [geo] Plan C? Not a joke?!!! - Original Message - From: geoengineering@googlegroups.com

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2011-04-26 Thread Alvia Gaskill
...@nrdc.org To: geoengineering@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 7:56 Subject: [geo] Plan C? Our first neo-Mayan governor Gov. Perry Issues Proclamation for Days of Prayer for Rain in TexasThursday, April 21, 2011Austin, TexasProclamation TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME

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2011-04-26 Thread Michael Hayes
...@nrdc.org To: geoengineering@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 7:56 Subject: [geo] Plan C? Our first neo-Mayan governor Gov. Perry Issues Proclamation for Days of Prayer for Rain in TexasThursday, April 21, 2011Austin, TexasProclamation TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME