Astronomer royal calls for 'Plan B' to prevent runaway climate change

[Peace Patriot]

37. Well, I admit I'm fantasizing that we could put NASA's technology geniuses in charge...

...of saving Planet Earth from global warming, and--to solve the over-population crisis--find us another planet and terraform it.

Frankly, at this point, I'd put them in charge of everything--education, the EPA, the White House, the banksters, the Pentagon, et al.

But YOUR solution--that 'we' fix Planet Earth and not bother about anything else--is equally a fantasy. Ain't gonna happen. This TITANIC is headed at top speed right into the iceberg. There is NO STOPPING the corporate greed that is driving it, and NO WAY to force our bought-and-paid-for political leaders to curtail them.

So, allow me a bit of fantasy about who COULD stop catastrophic climate change, if somehow we could put them in charge.

I did NOT say forget Planet Earth and go trolling for another potential Garden of Eden. I said we need to do BOTH. Cuz, if scientists who do the impossible on a routine basis--such as NASA science teams--manage to fix the global warming of Planet Earth with some of their "impossible" solutions--we STILL have the human population balloon that will kill Planet Earth in other ways.

Once again, you are saying that something is "not possible." (And you've inflated that to "not remotely possible.&quot Human flight was "not possible." The pyramids were "not possible." Crossing the oceans was "not possible." Penicillin was "not possible." The list is very long of the impossible things that have become possible and real.

Stop thinking, is your advice. It is very bad advice.

You: "Thinking that terraforming other worlds is related, in any way whatsoever, to the environmental problems of Earth, is a waste of time."

Thinking is NEVER a waste of time. And thinking about terraforming other worlds could well lead to the solutions could be employed here, on Planet Earth.

It would, at the least, increase understanding of the complexity of living environments. At best, it could yield solutions that are directly applicable to Planet Earth.

And, who knows if the people who sent a still operating spacecraft outside of our solar system, into interstellar space--and have done so many other astonishing things--could in truth figure out how to create livable environments on other orbs? To say, "don't think about it" reminds me of the Catholic prelates who refused to look through Galileo's telescope. They didn't want to think about it and they didn't want anybody else to think about it either, and tried their damnedest to STOP THOUGHT.