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Re: fHuman vs. natural influences on the environment
charliew@hal-pc.org (charliew) wrote:
>... The
>other group seems to be of the opinion that zero emissions,
>zero risk, zero tolerance, etc., is the goal that we should
>be setting for ourselves.
Then there is a third camp, to which I belong. This camp looks at
the increasingly firm evidence of global effects, the huge demand
for energy and the consequent emission of formerly-fossil carbon
into the atmosphere at still-rising rates, and advocates "go slow".
If it should turn out to be necessary to freeze atmospheric CO2
concentrations at anything close to current levels to avoid
unacceptable consequences, we have no means of doing this without
enormous pain and disruption.
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