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[gfish]

Hack the planet!

Geoengineering is such a cute term. Let's call this what it is -- active terraforming. (As compared to the non-active terraforming we've been experimenting with for some time now.) I suppose getting practice here before Mars is, uh.... no, it's just completely insane. Oh well. Onwards and upwards!

Comments

[arjache.livejournal.com]

Well, it's been fun while it lasted. I for one plan to evolve into a being of pure energy.

[ilmarinen.livejournal.com]

It's not be non-active, it's just been unintentional, or accidental? Errr, not-deliberate, as in, not-thought-out or considered.

The idea of requiring an global-scale machine to counteract our pollution is pretty scary--especially when a short-term failure of the system could cause significant and sudden shifts climate shifts.

-B.

[ilmarinen.livejournal.com]

Of course, I have always maintained that if we can't collectively manage not to screw-up a perfectly good, self-correcting and well-established livable planet, it's silly to think we are up to the challenge of terraforming a currently uninhabitable one.

In fact, I think the idea of terraforming other planets is actively dangerous to sustaining earth. We have to get out of the mindset of endless frontiers to be consumed before we will achieve sustainability.

-B.

[rigel-p.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Maybe it's just me, but howsabout we actively terraform the planet we're NOT living on first?

I nominate Venus. If we could terraform it, we could fix any planetary issue not involving the end of the Main Sequence.