Geo-engineering...

BrucePartington · 07-31-13, 10:24 AM

First off, the video game Alpha Centauri comes to mind. Terraformers can raise and lower terrain to change weather patterns, for peace and war purposes.

Obviously I know very little about nature and climate, compared to someone with a degree on this.
However it does strike me as further artificial change of a system that has proved over millions of years to be self regulating and self stabilizing. Fiddle with it and you may throw it even farther from balance.

It seems that scientists in general now have a "tunneled vision" in which there can be only artificial solutions.
I don't think the side effects of the proposed fiddling would be of no consequence.
I guess engineering is more profitable than allow and help nature do it.

We need more pure air, not further deplete our resources on planetary scale projects.
It looks as though Earth will eventually become Coruscant. We may even see some Jedi walking around.

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07-31-13, 10:24 AM	#2
BrucePartington XO Join Date: May 2013 Location: KM AM99 Posts: 405 Downloads: 33 Uploads: 0	First off, the video game Alpha Centauri comes to mind. Terraformers can raise and lower terrain to change weather patterns, for peace and war purposes. Obviously I know very little about nature and climate, compared to someone with a degree on this. However it does strike me as further artificial change of a system that has proved over millions of years to be self regulating and self stabilizing. Fiddle with it and you may throw it even farther from balance. It seems that scientists in general now have a "tunneled vision" in which there can be only artificial solutions. I don't think the side effects of the proposed fiddling would be of no consequence. I guess engineering is more profitable than allow and help nature do it. We need more pure air, not further deplete our resources on planetary scale projects. It looks as though Earth will eventually become Coruscant. We may even see some Jedi walking around.