A tiny discussion about climate change triggered by FOSS4G 2009 talks logged by seven on #osgeo IRC channel:
[seven] The Earth's climate is changing. [seven] Finally it seems like it is not a discussion any more. [seven] We messed the world up and now? [seven] We go fly to down under. Huh. [mloskot] The Earth climate is a self-modifying code performing multi processing tasks, quite hard to debug [seven] Debug earth's climate is easy: Remove humanity [seven] says a dedicated Borg... [mloskot] seven: right, that sounds like a reasonable patch
And to apply the patch, there are some willing to bomb humanity back to the stone age…
I don’t completely agree with seven about sweeping away humanity. The effects of human activities won’t be avoided even if we all disappear from Earth right now. I guess it is better to do something now to carefully patch the Earth’s overcomplicated code (keeping in mind that there are no backups!) :)
my 2 cents..
@Gary
If it’s a choice between stone age and turn the planet Earth into a desert, personally I’d stick to the former, even if I love programming :-)
@Anne
Certainly, the chat blows the problem out of proportion, more or less, but it is to emphasize the real problem.
The stone age “ain’t all it’s cracked up to be…”
@Mateusz:
yes, that was a serious response to a serious topic, raised in a non-serious way :)
anyway, AFAIK the responsibility of the present situation and the future actions are sometimes excessively simplified by people who actually have to manage this problem ;)
all the best
@Anne
Yup.
@Gary
Gotcha