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Should we adapt to climate change?
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I'd like to see something other than just a correlation to prove humans are cousing global warming.
Use what is abundant and build to last
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Its a poorly worded question. There is no question whether we need to adapt to a change. We do. The question is where on the thermometer should the Earths temperature be.
"Yes, I was going to give this astronaut selection my best shot, I was determined when the NASA proctologist looked up my ass, he would see pipes so dazzling he would ask the nurse to get his sunglasses."
---Shuttle Astronaut Mike Mullane
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Even better yet, just what do we have to do to properly adapt to a world devoid of permenant polar ice? First we would have to cease the emitting of CO2, because the slow unintentional bleed will clearly cause tremendous damage to an unprepared human civilization. Then we'd have to determine if we could control the process, and maintain a stable level at the end, and I think its very important that such a goal is attainable in the maximum of human life span, less than a century. Anything more and your asking far to much of a generation who had nothing to do with the decision making process.
We need to be all on roughly the same level as far as Education is concerned. I use education as the standard only because it is the overriding factor controlling social and economic status. We need to close the education gap before the economic one because economics are probably more of an impediment in a situation such as this anyway. If people can gain the knowledge to live a modern, and necessarily mobile life and provide for their wants and needs on the rawest of the raw materials, then all this is just a matter of organization. Socially, we are in the midst of the last great social revolution of man. Technology is making the mere act of living less of a question, putting the driving force of man more in the quality category. The meaning of life will be far more of a concern than were the next meal comes from. Socially, two camps have developed, the free and the enslaved. The free think that every man has the right to act according to their beliefs so long as it doesn't infringe on others right to do the same. The enslaved, or rather the slave masters believe that any excerise of free will that varies from them is a bad influence that must be squashed as threat to them. This will either end when the free people prevail, or the whole thing will descend into thermonuclear genocide if the free people can't be bothered to stand up for themselves. And it will be settled in a generation or two.
That aside, the remaining road blocks are technological. The biggest single change is probably cheap carbon nanotubes for all your construction needs. Their isn't much that can't be made directly from them that can't be had locally pretty much anywhere.
"Yes, I was going to give this astronaut selection my best shot, I was determined when the NASA proctologist looked up my ass, he would see pipes so dazzling he would ask the nurse to get his sunglasses."
---Shuttle Astronaut Mike Mullane
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