[permaculture] Are 'Hail Mary' Technological Solutions Our Only Hope to Prevent Disastrous Climate Change?
Toby Hemenway
toby at patternliteracy.com
Fri Jan 2 21:22:59 EST 2009
Did anyone else note the ironic juxtaposition of this article with
Darren Doherty's post of yesterday, in which he offers workshops on
carbon farming? I'm surprised that we still haven't learned to try
biological solutions like those of Yeomans before technological ones
like seeding the oceans with iron. Yikes! I'd say that this more or less
irreversible "solution" is just screaming for the law of unintended
consequences to show up. What critical ocean nutrients will be depleted
when hungry algae search for food to balance the load of chemical
fertilizer they've been given? The problem can be the solution, but with
technology, the solution is often the problem.
Toby
http://patternliteracy.com
Nicholas Roberts wrote:
> you might not be interested in global geo engineering solutions... but
> it is interested in you
>
> I am interested in trying to apply Permaculture to Gaia Theory
>
> how do you managed a planet ? we are managing a planet now anyway,
> just really, really badly
>
> the way that power is structured in the world system we will end up
> with a Mc Donalds Haliburton Green Zone surrounded by Darfur's
> everywhere...
>
>
> Are 'Hail Mary' Technological Solutions Our Only Hope to Prevent
> Disastrous Climate Change?
> By Steve Connor, Independent UK
>
>
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