So, the environmental price mechanism is tampered with (This is an Arthur one-liner.)
Ed wrote:
Harry, for once I come pretty close to agreeing with you, though not necessarily about the market mechanism. It's a human creation and therefore prone to being tampered with and redesigned to suit certain purposes.
Ed
> Ed, > > Any purposefulness in Gaia in the minds of people, who perhaps haven't yet > escaped the fear of the outside dark as they huddle around their fires. > > The earth adjusts constantly, using negative feedback to restore > equilibrium - rather like the market mechanism, which is also negative > feedback. > > It doesn't do this so that Man can live here. Rather, Man lives here > because it happens to suit his survival. If it didn't, Man would not > survive - even though we are particularly well suited for survival, being > omnivorous, ubiquitous, and without natural restrictions on our breeding time. > > Thus, in the late 70's, after 35 years of surface cooling (during > increasing CO2) there was an abrupt change to surface warming. Something > happened, conditions changed, and the earth's negative feedback began to > adjust. > > So, what happened? Perhaps studying this it's more important than studying > who was killed this week in the Middle East. > > We are well suited to survive, but I fear our built-in weaknesses will > probably wipe us out the next time the mighty glaciers come rumbling out of > the North. > > No matter how much we pray, Gaia has no way of caring what happens to us. > Better to get off our knees and think what can be done. I fear, by then, it > will probably be too late. We'll be too busy arguing whether the > conservatives or liberals will do a better job. > > Harry
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