A popular tenet of many organized religions is Creation; an omnipotent, omniscient, omni-everything Deity created the Earth. Human beings were the pi�ce de r�sistance of this undertaking. We were put in charge of the planet -- given dominion is the usual phrase -- and told to 'go forth and multiply.'
We've done a really good job with the multiplication, but we've fallen down on general housekeeping. We've fouled the air, polluted the water, poisoned the soil, denuded the forests, killed off thousands of animal species and generally pushed Mother Earth to a premature demise -- at least for us. The planet itself will probably survive; we just won't be alive to enjoy what's left of it.
Wait a minute! Is that the cavalry galloping over that hilltop? Are we going to be saved in the 11th hour? Is BIG SCIENCE going to rescue us from cataclysmic climate change? Yeah, right... wanna buy a bridge?
Geoengineering -- ‘A Bad Idea Whose Time Has Come’
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