Re: Freeman Dyson on heresy

On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:04:25 +0200, Martin Griffith wrote:

On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 07:40:48 -0700, in sci.electronics.design John
Larkin <jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge219.html#dysonf


John
Good stuff, like

"But military intelligence bears the same relation to intelligence as
military music bears to music."

He certainly has some nice sounding one-liners in there. What he mostly
ignores, and what many others ignore to a much greater degree, is that if
the global warming theories are wrong, and we reduce emissions, we're out
of some luxury items. If they're right, and we keep the party going, the
hangover is going to be lethal.

Frankly, I think that in 500 years there will be fewer people on earth,
and each one of them will have significantly less access to resources than
we do. Whether it's from climate change, famine, or plague I don't believe
it's a question of _whether_ this is going to happen, it's just a
question of how sudden and severe the transition is going to be. We have
to decide if we want to bring the plane in for a soft landing or if we
want to try to keep flying level until it stalls and crashes.

--
Tim Wescott
Control systems and communications consulting
http://www.wescottdesign.com

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