tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427940.post6667361466436797836..comments2023-12-05T07:50:19.855-05:00Comments on No Oil for Pacifists: About That Consensus, Part 6@nooil4pacifistshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16688417615117569825noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427940.post-79627528962514343282009-07-31T13:13:12.726-04:002009-07-31T13:13:12.726-04:00"Such hysteria simply represents the scientif..."Such hysteria simply represents the scientific illiteracy of much of the public,"<br /><br />Precisely. And most of our politicians as well. <br /><br />It's frightening.sueknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427940.post-66782303256178064312009-07-31T01:30:34.182-04:002009-07-31T01:30:34.182-04:00And also:
We are the legitimate children of Gaia;...And also:<br /><br /><i>We are the legitimate children of Gaia; we need not be ashamed that we are altering the landscapes and the ecosystems of Earth. But we do owe our mother careful attention to our handiwork and to our treatment of Gaia's other species of life.</i>OBloodyHellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09992539380115488567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427940.post-31304612760037877752009-07-31T01:28:20.549-04:002009-07-31T01:28:20.549-04:00J. P. Valk in Doomsday Has Been Cancelled had this...J. P. Valk in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Doomsday-been-cancelled-Peter-Vajk/dp/0915238241" rel="nofollow">Doomsday Has Been Cancelled</a> had this to say:<br /><br /><i>Yosemite Valley in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California is one of my favorite places on Earth. When the glaciers, which formed its sheer vertical walls, receded some ten thousand years ago, they left a large lake in the upper half of the valley, dammed up behind the detritus of gravel and boulders deposited by the melting ice at the lower margin of the active glacier. Over a few thousand years, the lake silted up, creating the flat floor of the valley. When tourists first started visiting the valley in large numbers, less than a century ago, the valley floor was a mix of forest and meadow, with a large, clear lake at the upper end of the valley, reflecting the spectacular, granite faces which surround it- - Cloud's Rest, Half Dome, North Dome, and Washington Column. Today the forests have taken over more of the valley floor, and the siltation of Mirror Lake continues, so that even in years of normal precipitation the lake is reduced to an expanse of mud with a small stream meandering through one side during half the summer and fall.<br /><br />A conservation ethic, dedicated to the preservation of the biosphere in its status quo, would be just as lethal- - both to ourselves and to the rest of the system- - as it would be to pave the entire planet with concrete and asphalt. If we were to attempt to preserve Yosemite Valley, unchanged forever, which Yosemite should be preserved: the Glacial Lake, the silted marshland of a few thousand years ago, the Yosemite our grandparents knew, or the Yosemite to come, with very little meadow space and no Mirror Lake?<br /><br /><b>How shall we use and shape the planet?</b></i>OBloodyHellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09992539380115488567noreply@blogger.com