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Environment & Energy

hunter

(38,317 posts)

7. This is true.

Reply to GliderGuider (Reply #6)

Tue Jul 23, 2013, 03:59 PM

Jul 2013

Look below the surface, it's a strange world we were born into.

I'm formally educated as an evolutionary biologist.

What's happing now is as it's always been. An innovative species changes the world.

Our self-proclaimed "intelligence" is the same sort of innovation as a chloroplast.

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Climate change: some reasons for our failures [View all] GliderGuider Jul 2013 OP

Good article, ... CRH Jul 2013 #1

They talk about their green cars at the Sierra Club... hunter Jul 2013 #5

When you step back two paces and squint a bit... GliderGuider Jul 2013 #6

This is true. hunter Jul 2013 #7

Aha! You might like this, then. GliderGuider Jul 2013 #8

Those are some scary thoughts... hunter Jul 2013 #13

It can go two ways. joshcryer Jul 2013 #15

Not another dirty old hippie, ... CRH Jul 2013 #12

"... [can] humankind very rapidly wean itself from [fossil fuels]?" joshcryer Jul 2013 #2

Another possibility - sulphate injection blackmail, if we take the geoengineering route hatrack Jul 2013 #3

"The sulphate must flow!" Nihil Jul 2013 #10

Another weaning issue is all the built-out infrastructure that must be maintained. GliderGuider Jul 2013 #4

When I think of geo engineering, ... CRH Jul 2013 #11

It's, sadly, a very straightforward method. joshcryer Jul 2013 #14

The other thing that never seems to come up during geoengineering discussions . . . hatrack Jul 2013 #16

There are already proposals to dump minerals in the oceans. joshcryer Jul 2013 #17

Eat, fight, or drive. Pick just one. Iterate Jul 2013 #9