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This year's Earth Hour is widely expected to be even more successful than last year's event. Relatively little will be achieved directly by the act of turning off lights in cities around the world for only one hour, rather, Earth Hour will be a powerfully symbolic act that will help mobilize people behind the cause of saving the natural environment. Or so we hope.
Life on Earth will survive no matter what we do. Life is durable, having survived so many asteroid impacts and periods of volcanic activity and ice age. Human beings, now, are much more fragile, depending on the continued existence of certain ecologies and certain climates and certain other facts if we are to maintain our complex planetary civilization. It's certainly imaginable that, without sufficient mobilization and action, we won't save the environment in time to save our civilization, maybe even our species. It's even possible with mobilization and suitable action.
I have two questions that I would like to put to my readers today. Do you think that we will be able to prevent the natural environment from going to hell and taking us with it? And if you think that we'll be successful, how do you think we'll do it. Myself, I hope that we'll be able to save the current natural environment, and I suspect that we'll be using quite a lot of high technology: carbon sequestration, ecological engineering, maybe even solar shades.
And you?
Life on Earth will survive no matter what we do. Life is durable, having survived so many asteroid impacts and periods of volcanic activity and ice age. Human beings, now, are much more fragile, depending on the continued existence of certain ecologies and certain climates and certain other facts if we are to maintain our complex planetary civilization. It's certainly imaginable that, without sufficient mobilization and action, we won't save the environment in time to save our civilization, maybe even our species. It's even possible with mobilization and suitable action.
I have two questions that I would like to put to my readers today. Do you think that we will be able to prevent the natural environment from going to hell and taking us with it? And if you think that we'll be successful, how do you think we'll do it. Myself, I hope that we'll be able to save the current natural environment, and I suspect that we'll be using quite a lot of high technology: carbon sequestration, ecological engineering, maybe even solar shades.
And you?
