Geoengineering and its demented cousin, Gesturengineering

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/07/geoengineerin-1.html link: wired science – wired blogs.
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“In covering the environment and energy, I see far too many ideologically pure, conceptually perfect, beautifully symbolic, and totally ineffectual ideas floated for “helping the planet.” From here on, I’ve got a name for nice ideas that will have no impact on the world’s very real environmental problems: gesturengineering.”
Eddie Davidson – CAUCE North America
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(((That’s a great coinage, “gesturengineering,” for grandiose but silly notions that might buy won’t rescue the planet. I’m a science fiction writer and I naturally dote on such schemes, but as the situation worses rapidly I am finding them in bad taste.)))
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(((It seems we need a counterpart to the term “gesturengineering” which would describe the mostly-imaginary earth-crushing threats which might kill us all in theory but are practically impossible. Stuff like… uhm… threats like Frankfurt Marxist Critical Theory destroying Western Civilization. I’d suggest “Armageddon-theater,” but it’s got too many syllables.)))

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