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"Climate change is not gonna be combatted through voluntary acts of
individual charity. It's gonna be combatted through some kind of
colossal, global-scaled, multilateral, hectic, catch-as-catch-can
effort to stop burning stuff, suck the burnt smoke out of the sky, and
put the smoke back into the ground. That's not gonna get done a little
green teacup at a time, because we've been doing it for two centuries
and we don't have two centuries to undo it."Reducing emissions" is a wrongheaded way to approach it. If
"reducing emissions" is the goal, then the best technique available is
to drop dead. The second-best technique is to go around killing a lot
of people. Nobody's got a lighter eco-footprint than a dead and
buried guy. He's not walking around leaving footprints: the Earth is
piled on top of him. "- Bruce Sterling
http://www.well.com/conf/inkwell…