Topic: | Re:Re:cuts no ice | |
Posted by: | Stewart Dean | |
Date/Time: | 29/06/08 18:23:00 |
Henry wrote.. "Then we come to the big questions - does it matter, what should we do about it, how should we organise ourselves in response to this data and should we spend x resources here or y there? These are all political questions." I agree in part. What to do about it is political but also personal as well. In either case it's about getting the best advice and trying to ignore as much political noise as possible, trying to do what can be done without recourse to finding scape goats, for example. "The problem is that [so] much green moral outrage conflates the scientific consensus with their political aspirations." And this is exasperated by anti-greens making arguments not from a scientific basis but using anacdotal evidence and personal vitriol. Really I don't care about the token green politics, there is a large aspect to this that is apolitical. Also in your earlier attempt to down play the level of certainty that global warming is man made, nothing is every absolute in science but, as I said before, we're well beyond the reasonable doubt on this one. What the ongoing effects will be we have some fairly good estimates, most of which, when revisited, turn out to be overly conservative. What we do about it has lots of political elements to it but doesnt need to be political on a personal level. You don't need to vote green to be a vegetarian for example. |