“If climate change is a hoax, it’s the greatest hoax ever perpetrated, because everything we do to respond will make us more efficient, more productive, more entrepreneurial, more competitive, [and] more respected [in the world].”
– David Friedman, author of The World is Flat, and Hot, Flat and Crowded.
Archive for the ‘Environment’ Category
Putting things in perspective
Posted in Culture, Environment, Science, Technology on 8 September 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Aaronson on technology
Posted in Environment, Philosophy, Science, Technology on 7 September 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Robin Hanson on the Overcoming Bias blog links to Scott Aaronson’s review of The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil (which I’ve read, and whom I watched deliver a speech at the first Singularity Summit).
There’s a lot I could say about that review, and I will, but right now I just want to point out [...]
Cquestrate
Posted in Environment, Technology on 21 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Cquestrate is an “open source” inititiative to develop a system for the production of lime, which can be dumped into the ocean to absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide. The brains behind the project believe that atmospheric carbon dioxide can be reduced to pre-Industrial Revolution levels. That plan looks feasible in theory. I just wonder how much [...]
World Wildlife Fund goes ape shit
Posted in Environment on 27 June 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t understand the point of this advertisement. Is the World Wildlife Fund suggesting that mean sea levels will rise so much that we’ll have to evolve fishoid adaptions to survive? Whatever message they are trying to convey, the ad is absurdly alarmist and patently false. With modern technology we obviate most environental selection pressures. [...]
