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Friday, 2 January 2004
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Mark Kleiman runs a political blog I subscribe to with my RSS reader. In response to novelist Michael Crichton's rant that global warming is just bad science, he recently posted a brief but insightful exploration of... [Another World Is Here]
Right, then. We can't know what the world will look like in 2100. But unless we also don't care what the world looks like in 2100, or unless we think our current actions have zero predictable impact on what he world will look like in 2100, we need to make decisions now -- we are, in fact, making decisions now -- in which results a century hence are part of the objective function. I think that it is exciting to predict the future...from Jules Verne to Bruce Sterling many people have been pretty good at it...
In the end, however, we can't rely on the possibility that a couple of generations from now they will find a way to clean up our mess. When you leave a rented house, you leave it clean - or forfeit your deposit. I think the way it's going we are all forfeiting our deposit - there is trash in every corner, the carpet is stained and the walls ruined....
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I just can't let this go unlinked.... [Homeland Obscurity (music notes)] [Mediaburn] Nothing but trouble, guitar players are. I ran into Alex Lifeson in Santa Fe a few years back, or more correctly he ran into me since I would not have known him from any Tom, Dick or Harry. He said his name was Alex Lifeson, to which I replied OK, have a nice day or something to that effect. Then he told me he was the guitarist for Rush and I said OK again. I didn't know...never listened to Rush...but falling down a stairwell would suck...
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Ottmar Liebert.
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