[Terrapreta] Critical thinking or lack thereof

[Kurt Treutlein]

On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 15:59 -0600, Sean K. Barry wrote:
> Hi Kurt,
>  
> Long time ... no see.  
Been very busy, changing to a new place in Tasmania

> I didn't miss the idea that the issue of global warming is complex.  I
> just do not adhere to the belief that perfect understanding of all the
> complexities of a system is a requirement for general understanding of
> it or for action to try and abate some of its problems.  Voltaire
> said, "The perfect is the enemy of the good".  If one honestly
> believes that we require complete and perfect understanding of the
> entire inner workings of global climate complexity, then they will
> never act.  Inaction is not good when obvious problems are evident as
> a result of inner-workings of global climate complexity.  Its probably
> best not to ask if you would agree with that, either?

You're still missing it. No matter what you do, results will be
different from what you thought they were going to be. And the more you
try to do to fix the problem, the more different things will get.
So you need to be prepared for that. Just how you do *that*----

It's a bit like the old furphy about ecological destruction. You can't
destroy an ecology, you can only change it.

Kurt
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