Jed Rothwell wrote:
Michel Jullian wrote:
This makes a lot of sense, but how will the public vote between CF
and Joe Newman's machine or any other fringe research in practice?
Via some reality television program? (why not) And who/what will
guide their choice?
The public will have to educate itself by reading newspapers,
magazines and technical literature. That is the responsibility of
citizens in a free society. People have to master their own technology
or society may collapse. That is one of Diamond's themes in the book
"Collapse." The Europeans who colonized Greenland circa 1300 did not
have the wherewithal to make the iron tools they brought with them, or
the navigational and shipbuilding skills to get back to their homeland
often enough with goods to trade. They lost survival skills, and they
perished.
IMHO, a simpler explanation is that they were in Greenland during the
wrong part of the 1600 year global heating and cooling cycle and froze
to death.
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