Let's fix up our planet before we ruin another one. And ask ourselves, "Is it really worth it?"
How do we know our planet's so badly damaged? Largely due to techniques created by James Lovelock ('the Gaia guy') for life-detection for the Viking Mars Landers.
How can we monitor the damage to our atmosphere, for example ozone layer damage over the poles? Using satellites - not corporate ones: where's the profit, but state-sponsored ones.
How can we attempt to predict the effects of a runaway greenhouse effect? Largely down to NASA and USSR probes to Venus. Before the probes it was widely believed that Venus (pretty, blue, cloudy) was probably just like home. After the probes we know different. We know how bad it can get - way beyond the acceptable limits for any form of life we know, even the little bugs in the undersea black-smokers.
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Let's fix up our planet before we ruin another one. And ask ourselves, "Is it really worth it?"
How do we know our planet's so badly damaged? Largely due to techniques created by James Lovelock ('the Gaia guy') for life-detection for the Viking Mars Landers.
How can we monitor the damage to our atmosphere, for example ozone layer damage over the poles? Using satellites - not corporate ones: where's the profit, but state-sponsored ones.
How can we attempt to predict the effects of a runaway greenhouse effect? Largely down to NASA and USSR probes to Venus. Before the probes it was widely believed that Venus (pretty, blue, cloudy) was probably just like home. After the probes we know different. We know how bad it can get - way beyond the acceptable limits for any form of life we know, even the little bugs in the undersea black-smokers.
enough?.
TomV