freemandyson
All the fuss about global warming is grossly exaggerated. thats downplaying the risk factor involved. world climate MIGHT be more important than everything else.
There is no doubt that parts of the world are getting warmer, but the warming is not global. I am not saying that the warming does not cause problems. Obviously it does. yep
I am saying that the problems are grossly exaggerated. They take away money and attention from other problems that are more urgent and more important ....... not to mention easy problems such as the timely construction of adequate dikes around the city of New Orleans. no sorry saving new orleans is NOT more important than understanding world climate change!!!
the problem of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is a problem of land management, not a problem of meteorology. No computer model of atmosphere and ocean can hope to predict the way we shall manage our land. well sure. i dont think meteorology is offered as kinda solution!!!! certainly land management eg AMAZON RAINFOREST DESERTIFICATION OVERCROPPING etc etc etc are urgent problems directly/possibly related to climate change as freeman also says....
For humanists, the highest value is harmonious coexistence between humans and nature. The greatest evils are poverty, underdevelopment, unemployment, disease and hunger, all the conditions that deprive people of opportunities and limit their freedoms. The humanist ethic accepts an increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as a small price to pay, if world-wide industrial development can alleviate the miseries of the poorer half of humanity. The humanist ethic accepts our responsibility to guide the evolution of the planet. but WHY should INDUSTRIAL DEVELOIPMENT be the only way FORWARD???
this is a trap we set to ourselves and we are aided to it by WELL MEANING HUMANISTS such as freeman dyson and INSTITUTIONS SUCH AS THE WORLD BANK which blindly promote a specific model of progress..... WHAT ABOUT LESS PROFITS AND GOING EASY ON THE PLANET????? why that means necessarily poverty and hunger????
The humanist ethic looks forward to a time not far distant, when genetically engineered food-crops and energy-crops will bring wealth to poor people in tropical countries is GENETIC ENGINEERING is our only savior then sorry but surely we took a wrong turn somewhere!!!! you mean freeman that human evolution leads inexorably to GENETIC ENGINEERING???? wtd what about the POSSIBILITY that we are simply TOO MANY for this planet......????