Sunday, January 17, 2010

Stewart Brand: Rethinking Green - (extract on the case for ecosystem alteration)

On the subject of bioengineering (direct intervention in climate), Brand suggested that we will have to follow of the example of beneficial "ecosystem engineers" such as earthworms and beavers and tweak our niche (the planet) toward a continuing life-friendly climate, using methods such a cloud-brightening with atomized seawater and recreating what volcanoes do when they pump sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, cooling the whole world.

http://fora.tv/2009/10/09/Stewart_Brand_Rethinking_Green

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