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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!

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[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.