X-Message-Number: 31538
From: Mark Plus <>
Subject: Re: Climate change double-think X4
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 07:57:18 -0700

In Cryonet #31529, Oberon writes:

>[Four articles give several interesting views on this Global Warming myth. 


Not that long ago, technological futurists predicted that humanity could control
Earth's climate as a consequence of our relentless progress in mastering the 
forces of nature -- the same progress that they also predicted would conquer 
aging and death. 


Somewhere along the way we've seen an ironic role-reversal where they adopted a 
limits-to-puny-man's-powers narrative because they didn't like the politics of 
the people who warned about inadvertent climate change from the burning of 
fossil fuels.


I think we've missed an opportunity here to seize the science and turn it into a
powerful new technology to increase our dominion over nature. After all, what 
self-respecting futuristic civilization wouldn't want to know how to control its
planet's climate, even if that requires doing things that might inconvenience 
some special interest groups?


"Around 2010 the world will be at a new orbit in history. . .  Life expectancy 
will be indefinite. Disease and disability will nonexist. Death will be rare and
accidental -- but not permanent. We will continuously jettison our obsolescence
and grow younger." F.M. Esfandiary, "Up-Wing Priorities" (1981).
http://www.box.net/shared/static/ay9lub60ha.pdf
http://www.scribd.com/doc/10948503/Up-Wing-Priorities


Mark Plus



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