...what they say is a limitless, low-risk repository for carbon dioxide: seafloor sediments at depths and temperatures that would guarantee it would stay denser than the water above, and thus be permanently locked away...Rivkin/NYTimes 07.Aug.06
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So, the rationalist-positivist mind-set that gave us global warming in the first place - as an unforeseen/unforeseeable by-product of inevitable technological progress, carried forward by the internal-combustion hydrocarbon-fuelled personal engine and its near-universal application, globally - will now give us carbon-sequestration-through-technological-manipulation.
And screw the dark emptiness under the sea.
If I had the time and the free space I'd write a short story with an SF mise-en-scene where some kind of like Scout-leader fellow completely fucks up and jeopardizes the survival of his little group of Scouts or whatever, and then, in the midst of the chaos and turmoil he's created by his own incompetence, desperately tries to maintain control of the situation and his little fragmenting group.
The nice-people version of this is "Yikes! We have to do something! Quick!"
But it was foreseeable, and it was foreseen. The warnings were ignored, and the warning voices ridiculed.
Some of us would rather see it all fall away rather than leave you in charge, I think would be the not-so-nice position on that.
