A beautiful silvery morning and a fine 28 minute run.
In the run up to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) meeting in Lima on 20 June, rather than trying to address the causes of global warming, geo-engineers have been asked to look at ways of reducing the consequences by changing the biosphere (ref). Not being a geo-engineer, some of the ideas sound hugely risky to me – such as dumping huge quantities of iron filings, or lime, into the ocean, or putting sulphate aerosols into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight. Some of the others are just wacky.
On the other hand, given our collective inability to make large scale voluntary changes to the way in which we are wrecking the planet, just maybe it is slightly better than standing by helplessly as we consume our way to extinction. However the parallels with stomach stapling and gastric banding are sadly unavoidable.
Talking of human greed, a couple of posts ago I drew a parallel between rabbits and the political Right. On reflection, that was a careless and gross insult to rabbits, and I withdraw the comment unreservedly.
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