[extropy-chat] FWD [PvT] Terraforming Earth [WAS: FWD (SK)TheComing Climate Collapse]

[Spike]

>  (2/13/04 12:21) Mike Lorrey <mlorrey at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> >The biosphere is broke...
> 
> ObLibertarian: If you have private landownership of these 
> large forests, how do you prevent people from making a 
> rational economic decision to cut them down with out 
> regulations or financial incentives? Brent Neal

You hire the locals to guard and protect all that 
expensive infrastructure.  They already have the 
weapons, we just give them a worthwhile mission.

There we go, something even the stodgiest greens
would go for: re-forestation of the Sahara.

spike