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- | One of the problems with climate change is that it is a global, or planetary issue. Our major form of political organization currently is nationalism which is too small to establish a global response as the tragedy of the commons is almost ensured to occur short of some massive leap in human morality. -- Cam Riley | + | One of the problems with climate change is that it is a global, or planetary issue. Our major form of political organization currently is nationalism which is too small to establish a global response as the tragedy of the commons is almost ensured to occur short of some massive leap in human morality. |
+ | -- Cam Riley | ||
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- | Sustainability, | + | Sustainability, |
+ | -- Alex Steffen | ||
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- | We seek to share with all parties to the UNFCCC the vision of, and together with them to consider and adopt in the UNFCCC negotiations, | + | We seek to share with all parties to the UNFCCC the vision of, and together with them to consider and adopt in the UNFCCC negotiations, |
+ | -- G8 Hokkaido Toyako Summit | ||
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- | These ideas tend to be fairly polarizing. People either believe that material wealth is either totally infinite (Flat World) or it’s finite and getting close to being used up (environmentalists). Belief in technology as our savior is proposed as a path that can keep our current way of life but just change the components (electric cars, hydrogen economy, alternative power, etc…). Environmentalists debunk the technology as savior idea by saying it is too little, too late. [...] There is another possibility. At the risk of being called a Pollyanna, I think there may be a path that acknowledges that material resources are limited but also recognizes a powerful role for technology in helping us adapt. The basis for my theory is simple: material resources are limited but ideas are infinite. -- Dave Sohigian in http:// | + | These ideas tend to be fairly polarizing. People either believe that material wealth is either totally infinite (Flat World) or it’s finite and getting close to being used up (environmentalists). Belief in technology as our savior is proposed as a path that can keep our current way of life but just change the components (electric cars, hydrogen economy, alternative power, etc…). Environmentalists debunk the technology as savior idea by saying it is too little, too late. [...] There is another possibility. At the risk of being called a Pollyanna, I think there may be a path that acknowledges that material resources are limited but also recognizes a powerful role for technology in helping us adapt. The basis for my theory is simple: material resources are limited but ideas are infinite. |
+ | -- Dave Sohigian in http:// | ||
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- | Societies have a long record of adapting to the impacts of weather and climate. But climate change poses novel risks often outside the range of experience, such as impacts related to drought, heat waves, accelerated glacier retreat, and hurricane intensity. These impacts will require adaptive responses such as investments in storm protection and water supply infrastructure, | + | Societies have a long record of adapting to the impacts of weather and climate. But climate change poses novel risks often outside the range of experience, such as impacts related to drought, heat waves, accelerated glacier retreat, and hurricane intensity. These impacts will require adaptive responses such as investments in storm protection and water supply infrastructure, |
+ | -- R K Pachauri, Chairman, IPCC | ||
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- | Global warming is a unique geological event, more akin to the scale of nuclear war than saving the spotted owl. So why are we treating it as if it is a spotted owl? -- Sheril R. Kirshenbaum | + | Global warming is a unique geological event, more akin to the scale of nuclear war than saving the spotted owl. So why are we treating it as if it is a spotted owl? |
+ | -- Sheril R. Kirshenbaum | ||
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- | The seasonal cycle in atmospheric CO< | + | The seasonal cycle in atmospheric CO< |
+ | -- Dave Archer in http:// | ||
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+ | Actually, the party’s just beginning. It’s just a different kind of party, but it’s one that will be no less fun. Building a whole new kind of world, seeing how you can live well and put out less carbon, well what’s cooler than that? Lots of opportunities to think outside the box, and many of them a lot of people are going to make a lot of money out of as well. Like maybe heat pumps for home heating. They exist, but the creative engineering on them has just barely begun. | ||
+ | --raypierre | ||
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+ | There should be a gallery that collects, displays, and sifts such works over centuries and millennia, and develops ways to preserve them. That is exactly Burtynsky' | ||
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+ | a photovoltaic panel manufacturing plant can be made energy-independent by using energy derived from its own roof using its own panels. Such a plant becomes not only energy self-sufficient but a major supplier of new energy, hence the name solar breeder. | ||
+ | Lindmayer J. The solar breeder. Proceedings of the photovoltaic solar energy conference 1977 p. 825–35. | ||
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+ | Objections to [Al Gore's idea to Make All US Electricity From Renewable Sources] cannot be framed as support of a status quo, because the status quo doesn' | ||
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+ | --Bruce Sterling | ||
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+ | The new American energy moguls. The dot-greenies. Could they be any worse than oil sheiks, Nigerians and Russians? | ||
+ | --Bruce Sterling | ||
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+ | * 'The Earth House' a documentary by Cho Hyunkyoung | ||
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+ | * The essays in 'Small Tech' investigate the cultural impact of digital tools and provide fresh perspectives on mobile technologies. http:// | ||