[ExI] libertarian (asteroid) defense

Samantha Atkins sjatkins at mac.com
Tue Mar 1 18:36:10 UTC 2011


On 03/01/2011 03:39 AM, Anders Sandberg wrote:
>
> Climate change is indeed a reshuffling of the cards, in itself fairly 
> neutral but on one hand breaking down structure (all the winery 
> infrastructure will be in the wrong place, and it takes money, time 
> and expertise to build it somewhere else) and on the other affecting 
> people differently depending on their resilience (the dirty secret of 
> climate impacts on society research: the developed world is fairly 
> likely to withstand even pretty big climate effects, while the 
> undeveloped won't). 

Please point to irrefutable non-fudged evidence of actually dangerous 
levels of current climate change.  Otherwise could we move on to 
something actually important?

- samantha



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