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Humans altering the landscape enables civilization. Personally I'm more biased towards that than ecological conservatism. We should maintain a balance of cours
by cle 2y ago
Humans altering the landscape enables civilization. Personally I'm more biased towards that than ecological conservatism.
We should maintain a balance of course. I suppose the real problem here is agreeing on what "balance" means.
- uoaei 2y agoThe ecosystems are where we live, what you say makes basically zero sense.
- kibwen 2y ago> I suppose the real problem here is agreeing on what "balance" means. Yet I think we can hopefully all agree that expending unbelievable quantities of energy in order to desalinate seawater and pump it uphill a thousand miles in order to turn a desert canyon into a lake for absolutely no good reason whatsoever does not qualify as "balance".
- cle 2y agoWell the second paragraph of the article lays out what the author thinks the "good reasons" are. I don't even know if I agree or disagree with those as "good reasons". But also, we obviously don't all agree on them. Like, at all.
- Brian_K_White 2y agoI don't understand "expending" energy in this case. Obviously a key part of the plan would be to use the unbelievable quantities of solar energy currently just going to waste. It doesn't even require high tech pv, just plain mirrors to make just plain heat for a large portion of the work. And pumping water is not just a cost, it's also a battery, a hugely valuable thing we don't have enough of yet, which would enable more of the grid to live on renewables. It's not all magic but it's not all impossible nor pointless either.
- BurningFrog 2y agoTo me things are in balance if they're long term sustainable.