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Many folks especially environmentalists wish to tear down civilization to stop Climate Change & yet in doing so they would make human societies so weak that they could not cope with the repercussions of too hot & then too cold after the climate cliff hits the tipping point.

We need to talk about solutions to Global Warming, Climate Change or Climate Crisis or what ever you wish to call it without condemning virtually everyone & starting the international blame games. Recently one member of a think tank said;

I agree that a enormous project to balance the planet using icebergs & towing them into place; scrubbing the atmosphere, setting up an elliptical shield in Geo-sync, burying CO2 in natural gas cavities, using CO2 laser technology to generate power, moving to a hydrogen economy & many other such things could help a lot. But I see few if any proposals on tap, in actual fact I see blockage of such technologies by governments, special interests & such.

Yes, I see the adverse affects of droughts killing lets say 2.2 billion people due to lack of water & not enough time to build desalination plants. But indeed I see the funding of other things instead of preparation. Climate Changes happen, yes of course, they always have & it’s in the ice core records, geology & tree trucks to some degree. Yes we know all that.

Can mankind stop climate changes or do a “noise canceling strategy” on the peaks or exacerbated pendulum swings? Perhaps so, does that make sense? What is the cost? What is the cost if we do, or do not to the over all flows of the civilization? Will that help human civilizations or hurt them?

We would have increased inflation, killing some economies & hurting billions who right now live on less than a $1 a day as per Davos speeches this year. I’ve issues; I like nuclear, hydro, ocean wave power generation, thermal earth power, clean coal, hydrogen makes sense too. I’ve no problem with any of it.

We do need better batteries & what do we do with all the old batteries if 200 million cars in America hit the junkyards in the next fifty years? Decay, contaminated water? Well if we do not you could say we have red tide, algae blooms, more bacteria, dead fish (already over fished oceans) & dead zones 550 plus miles from human city shorelines or river mouths, yes all issues. But shutting down civilizations will not work either. So, other plans & ideas should be welcome & be considered. You think?

Perhaps it’s time to re-visit this subject but focus on the end goal & look for solutions & not play political blame games or go & attack big industries or our economic output. I hope this article propels thought in 2007.

“Lance Winslow” - Online Think Tank forum board. If you have innovative thoughts & completely unique perspectives, come think with Lance; www.WorldThinkTank.net/. Lance is a guest writer for Our Spokane Magazine in Spokane, Washington

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