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  For why these systems behave

  in similiar fashion, check out:

  www.resalliance.orgOn We have another billion-dollar resource at risk: the ocean posted 1 year, 1 month ago 10 Responses

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  Maybe the Scariest Part...

  Lately I have heard many articles and other sources discuss this, with the debate driven by economists.

  Stuff like, "well, if we engineer an artificial Mount Pinatoubo, it'll only cost $50 Billion, just a month in Iraq, versus [actually conserving energy, etc....]."

  It really seems that we are facing a sort of peak economics, that will break as peak oil begins cresting."On Battlefield earth posted 1 year, 9 months ago 3 Responses

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  we're in a circle here...

  certainly CO2 itself isn't a personal object.  like you wrote, it's a molecule.  that said, each species and individual has a unique CO2 signature, so to say...and that's the level on which it becomes personal...that quantity of CO2 which you, me or a polar emit over our life cycle.    

  We're just talking different levels of inquiry.  If CO2 isn't reducible on some level to each unique living breathing individual, human or otherwise, then how exactly do we find ourselves at this moment in history, as you write, about "reducing global CO2 emissions"?

  So in that way, there's a religious-esque element here.  Debatable to be sure, but what is sin but action (I suppose thought qualifies too, but that's a different metaphysical debate).  And our CO2 challenge is a derivative of the actions of our species, which constitute the collective action of its individuals, as we progressively evolve on what is looking more and more like a classic extinction curve.  

  I'm not arguing offsets here...I honestly need to study more before making any intelligent conclusions, other than my sense tells me their benefits are tenuous at best.  So there's my predisposition...

  But back to CO2, of course it's personal.  How we solve the issue is global, and can stay non-personal.  If not, how would you characterize all the CO2 calculators, admonitions and measuring of CO2 footprints.  

  Perhaps it's a truism to say I emit CO2.  But it is mine, and personal in that way.  To divide CO2, by simply characterizing it as a molecule, is to detach responsibility, personally (and following your reasoning to societies) from the solution.  Fact is...somebody has gotta own it, or we're in big, big trouble.On A new Pardoner's Tale? posted 2 years, 4 months ago 30 Responses

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  Defining the Sin...

  David...

  Isn't solving Climate Change about making CO2 personal?

  So to write, "Sin is personal. CO2 is not." is a non-starting, that avoids the argument.  The "sin" here, so to speak, is CO2.On A new Pardoner's Tale? posted 2 years, 4 months ago 30 Responses