Oct 22 2009
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“ The point of the chapter in SuperFreakonomics is that geoengineering might be good insurance in case we don’t get global warming under control. Nobody can tell you today exactly how much CO2 we can emit without causing grave environmental harm. Nobody can tell you at what point the world will find the political will, the money, and the technological innovation to solve the problem. In a situation like that, can the world afford to turn its back on what could be a promising approach should we fail with our other efforts?
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Sawickipedia: Myhrvold captures my view on the debate on what to do about climate change - we just don’t know what’s going to happen and what if anything we can do about it. That being said - I am a huge believer in decentralized power production (home solar) and renewable just from a practical long-term economic perspective (there’s only so much oil in the ground).
Selling a transition to renewable on part-luddite, part-religious creeds is a good way to lose the vast middle ground of the american public.
