To: Wharf Rat who wrote (10482 ) 3/16/2007 6:00:38 PM From: Maurice Winn Read Replies (1) | Respond to Wharfie, you really need to upgrade your ability to reason. <I'm still laughing, >DR TIM FLANNERY: What I mean by that is that perhaps the situation will get so dire that the world will need to cooperate in a very...integrated way to stabilise the global climate. And that may involve restrictions on emissions from all sorts of sources - agriculture, mining, industry and whatever else, and once you get to that point, you get a government that reaches very, very deep down into the lives of individual human beings. And I think that's a very undesirable outcome. Far better to let Gaia, or let natural systems control the climate . If we get into a carbon dictatorship situation, we will have a truly dreadful dictatorship. We're carbon-based life. Carbon is everywhere, it's integral to the way the planet works. So you don't want to let things go on so long that you're forced into that rather terrible situation. >
