re: #395 Guanxi88

There are answers and solution, but none of them seem to be enjoying anything along the lines of state support that the taxation and poverty proposals have.

Frankly, the solutions are not yet known to us. Disregard the whole controversy over the cause of the phenomenon - the effects are real and any civilization or species that denies the incontrovertible fact that their environment can and will become unsuitable is doomed.

Taxing the Hell outta the average guys, and imposing pointless and crippling restrictions on technological developments is guranteed to do nothing and make us all more miserable and impoverished as we slide toward the great culling.

Me? I;m a big fan of bio-char as a carbon sequestration/soil improvement technique. This improves developing world crop yields AND sequesters atmospheric carbon. I’m a huge fan of Kerrick Process for coal to liquids fuels, and think it’s criminally stupid to just burn coal when there’s so many valuable products to be gotten from it. These things, however, aren’t sexy, don’t catch the eye, and don’t do anything to increase the power of one group of people over another. And so, they’re not popular.

It’s my understanding that biochar is a new, yet growing and promising industry. And regarding your belief that we can’t find a solution if it doesn’t “do anything to increase the power of one group of people over another”, I’m not even sure what to say to that. That’s just a extreme, biases view, of what environmental advocates are trying to do. Nobody’s trying to take your liberty away or hold power over you through environmental standards. At least no more then people are trying to hold power over you through laws saying you can’t murder people or steal things or smoke until your 18 or drink until your 21.