Comments on: 10 Controversial Climate Change Fixes to Spark Discussion—From Wired.com

By: torbjorn rive

torbjorn rive — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:53:41 +0000

**technology can’t save everything I meant – rather than ‘anything’…as it can do lots of good of course!

By: torbjorn rive

torbjorn rive — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:52:24 +0000

Nice site Cody. I remember stopping through here some time ago, but now that I’m back I may stay a little longer. Blogging gets more addictive over time.

As for this post, it shows some interesting takes and responses to the climate problem – of which many people obviously don’t see as a problem. WIRED’s take on Old Growth and Carbon is full of monkeyshit, but at least they make a point to argue something, which to me is okay, as such discussion is more than warranted. Also, since my brother’s a climate change researcher (see In the Green in my blogroll) I’m probably biased in believing that Global Warming is an issue as well as caused by increasing human impacts.

And, one can’t just hope that our generation will be part of change etc…you need to BE part of that change! You’re a leader, make it so! That, and technology can’t save anything – real change has to come through actual change in habits.

By: Cody McKibben

Cody McKibben — Fri, 23 May 2008 05:34:19 +0000

Thanks for the comments guys. The Wired articles really caught my attention the other day; I like the counterintuitive solutions they offered up.

Hopefully enterprise can pull together to concentrate on adapting what we already do (habits, products, development sort of way) in an effective way sooner rather than later. Hopefully our generation will get to be a productive part of the positive change!

By: Rosie

Rosie — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:26:50 +0000

It’s probably negative b/c some of those things are less desirable for the individual – WHAT? A used car over a new one? Or living in an apartment in the busy, crowded city rather than living in a house in the ‘burbs?

Thanks for posting this! I was glad to read some of Wired’s ideas that I hadn’t heard before!

By: Robb

Robb — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:29:53 +0000

I think it boils down to peoples’ appreciation for industry and technology. I think the generally accepted green idea is that industry and the products we’ve made have only been bad for the environment. These articles imply otherwise, saying that through use of our technology we can solve problems as well, instead of just creating them. After all, it’s progress to be made, and progress will happen at some point. But it might happen sooner if we can all go towards the same goal instead of fighting progress at every seemingly bad turn. The end result is far away, and we have to keep that in mind. After all, sometimes it takes hitting the floor to bounce higher.