Comments on: Repair-adise: The Myth of the Self-Cleaning Earth

By: weecttimothy

weecttimothy — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:31:58 +0000

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By: Kater

Kater — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:23:10 +0000

Reading about 9 billion people dying sure takes the sting out of RoF closing, doesn’t it?

By: The City of Ember: Clever Assignments For Everyone « Yukon Science Fiction Writer

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:59:34 +0000

[...] Truly, I would have liked to have seen a whole movie about Ember BEFORE everything breaks down…but the plot moves them out of this nifty created world into, eventually, our own boring world with sunrises and prairies and mountains. Ahhh…landscapes. They are nice. But Lina and Doon, um, escaped the plot too, or forgot that they have no way of surviving on the surface. The movie reminds me of a great carnival ride—a lot of action and joy and cleverness in the construction, and a sad sigh at the end when it’s over and the world has been “lost” and you have to exit the ride. Not the sigh of characters you don’t want to leave–but the sigh that the cool part of the plot and story are gone. For a discussion about movies that end with a “healed earth” as a trope, even when it…. [...]

By: Keyan

Keyan — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 05:15:22 +0000

Of course we -the human race – will be changed. So much of who we think we are is our culture. And that will be hugely altered if the number of people falls from 6 billion to 1 billion. The world will be unchanged for some values of “change.” It will still have an atmosphere of sorts, seas, water, vegetation. It won’t be the world as we know it.

But I think I agree with Lovelock. It’s too late. All the “green” stuff we’re doing is illusory. I grew up in a different country, with a much smaller carbon footprint – not because of choice, but because that’s how things were. What I see as modifications are so trivial as to be funny. People are not going to consume *significantly* less of anything.

In the same issue of New Scientist, a different article discussed the probability that the Large Hadron Collider would open a black hole and wipe out this corner of the universe…