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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (187288)	5/25/2006 9:12:27 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I'm petty well willing to try almost anything of a terrestrial nature. I'm not sure I'm keen on trying mylar shades in space, tho. Nor energy plants on the moon. I'm with you on that. You don't treat symptons of skin cancer by pulling the shades. You figure out what's causing it (it could be something other than excess solar exposure) and work with the body to heal itself).. I personally believe that nothing that mankind has wrought competes with the self-inflicted wounds "mother nature" can inflict upon herself. But we're at a danger of over-personalizing "mother nature", when in reality the earth's own tectonic and volcanic turmoil has been responsible for tremendous climatic changes throughout it's history. Thus, I really have no problem with careful and incremental geo-engineering, especially when John Martin's proposed solution might actually be one that makes the greatest short-term impact, and have beneficial side-effects for marine life. I love such apparent "win-win" scenarios.. But the scientific community does not. And neither do the Kyoto treaty signators because for the "carbon credit" markets, Martin's idea is comparable to what "cold fusion" power would mean to the energy companies, were it ever proven to be viable. It would rip the very heart out of the carbon credit markets. The reality is that we "geo-engineer" the planet everytime we pump emmissions into the atmosphere, or exploit its fossil fuels. We geo-engineer the planet everytime we give birth to a methane producing child, and feed them with milk derived from flatulant dairy cattle. So it makes sense to me that we might want to explore the possibility of using the tools the earth has provided us, to compensate for, and mitigate, the impact we're having just from being alive. Hawk