23 Jan 2008
Jonathon Porritt, chairman of the UK government's Sustainable
Development Commission, rejected King's advocacy of nuclear power
precisely because of its technological emphasis: 'Pulling a
technological megafix, like nuclear power, out of the hat is easier from
a political point of view, but it misses the essence of climate change
which is transforming people's lives.'
For Porritt, then, technology gets in the way of the moral project -
telling us how to live!
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/4299/
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Regards
Bonzo
"Attributing global climate change to human CO2 production is akin to
trying to diagnose an automotive problem by ignoring the engine
(analogous to the Sun in the climate system) and the transmission (water
vapour) and instead focusing entirely, not on one nut on a rear wheel,
which would be analogous to total CO2, but on one thread on that nut,
which represents the human contribution." Dr. Timothy Ball, Chairman of
the Natural Resources Stewardship Project (NRSP.com), Former Professor
Of Climatology, University of Winnipeg
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