From: "Siddharth Chatterjee" <siddhart-AT-mailbox.syr.edu> Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 03:00:05 +0000 Subject: Re: M-I: Warming of Alaska & the Dam Gary MacLennan > What worries me about the Alaskan situation is that if we move into State C > from State B there is no guarantee at all that we will be able to get back > to B, because B was generated by elements in A which is now gone. > > I know that sounds a bit like gobble dee gook, but the point I am trying to > make that there is no simple linear progression in nature and if we destroy > things we might be unable to fix up the mess. Accordingly it makes a whole > lot more sense to be conservative, in the true sense of that word, in this > area. > The inertia of the earth (land and oceans)-atmosphere system is so great that changes once begun are very difficult to reverse. That is what is worrying the scientists. It looks like our planet's climate will undergo changes that will last for a long time to come. And with devastating consequences for life on earth. Sid --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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