Comments on: Wired pushes buttons on Global Warming http://www.naasen.org/2008/05/20/wired-pushes-buttons-on-global-warming The Homepage of BJ Atchley, Heather Atchley, Sophia Atchley, and Phoebe Atchley Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:23:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: BJ http://www.naasen.org/2008/05/20/wired-pushes-buttons-on-global-warming#comment-731 BJ Thu, 22 May 2008 16:43:26 +0000 http://www.naasen.org/?p=409#comment-731 Which is what I got out of the article. I didn't take it wholly seriously, but I applaud it for the reaction its bringing. That's my fundamental concern with global warming, the zealotry with which people cling to the currently proposed solutions. In a hilarious twist, Joe Godwin came to the same conclusion in our discussions in the actual digg thread, that we could do the most good by wiping industrilized nations off the earth... at least with respect to the planet. The Wired article is really explaining how to fit the most people on the planet period. Current environmentalism sells global warming as the most dangerous thing facing humanity when it clearly isn't. Which is what I got out of the article. I didn’t take it wholly seriously, but I applaud it for the reaction its bringing. That’s my fundamental concern with global warming, the zealotry with which people cling to the currently proposed solutions.

In a hilarious twist, Joe Godwin came to the same conclusion in our discussions in the actual digg thread, that we could do the most good by wiping industrilized nations off the earth… at least with respect to the planet.

The Wired article is really explaining how to fit the most people on the planet period. Current environmentalism sells global warming as the most dangerous thing facing humanity when it clearly isn’t.

]]> By: Spencer Brown http://www.naasen.org/2008/05/20/wired-pushes-buttons-on-global-warming#comment-730 Spencer Brown Thu, 22 May 2008 15:59:01 +0000 http://www.naasen.org/?p=409#comment-730 I applaud any efforts to take a more carefully considered approach to environmentalism. I am totally for saving the planet, giving our children a planet that is as good as the one we got, etc but I don't think a bunch of knee jerk reactions and media jumping on bandwagons is going to help. As for your somewhat bloodthirsty solution. We are to an extent carbon fixers. If 2/3 of the population died, who would bury them. If they are not buried you'd have 4 Billion rotting, CO2 releasing, plague spreading piles of organic molecules. The only way you'd get a carbon reduction through genocide is if you targeted the big polluters, or in other words industrialized nations. Europe, Japan, and US. I don't think that is what you had in mind. I applaud any efforts to take a more carefully considered approach to environmentalism. I am totally for saving the planet, giving our children a planet that is as good as the one we got, etc but I don’t think a bunch of knee jerk reactions and media jumping on bandwagons is going to help.

As for your somewhat bloodthirsty solution. We are to an extent carbon fixers. If 2/3 of the population died, who would bury them. If they are not buried you’d have 4 Billion rotting, CO2 releasing, plague spreading piles of organic molecules.

The only way you’d get a carbon reduction through genocide is if you targeted the big polluters, or in other words industrialized nations. Europe, Japan, and US. I don’t think that is what you had in mind.

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