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What's the worst that could happen?
A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate
Greg Craven 2009 / 363.7387 CRA / Beaverton Library
This book focuses on avoiding climate disaster. Define four alternatives, then show why only one is rational.
Well, guess what? There are practically infinite alternatives, most are awful, but some will generate both economic and ecologic superabundance ... "none of the above" alternatives that will be found by supercharged education, exploration, experimentation, engineering, and evaluation.
We can't find the (for now) best alternatives if we focus on avoidance. There are 8 billion people, and some expect we will reach 10 billion people before 2060. The world has survived more than 100 billion people so far. The question isn't body count, it is brain count. If we focus more attention on human development, helping every living person be creative and collaborative (even the so-called less-than-average, which is half of us), we won't have time or desire to make excess babies or excess CO₂.
CO₂ and sunlight are the inputs for biological primary production (a proxy for sunlight-powered biomolecule creation) by chlorophyll-bearing "autotrophs" such as land plants and ocean plankton. The SeaWiFS sensor on the OrbView-2 satellite measured chlorophyll concentrations in the ocean, producing this map:
