Four Futures for the Earth

And there really isn’t a bigger or more complicated problem right now than the incipient climate disaster. Today, there seems to be two schools of thought regarding the best way to deal with global warming: the “act now” approach, demanding (in essence) that we change our behavior and the ways that our societies are structured, and do it as quickly as possible, or else we’re boned; and the “techno-fix” approach, which says (in essence) don’t worry, the nano/info/bio revolution that’s just around the corner will save us. Generally, the Worldchanging approach is to emphasize the first, with a sprinkle of the second for flavor (and as backup).

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