> Much of our thinking is still dreamily stuck in 'how
> can we stop global warming?' mode. This isn't helpful
> because specialist after specialist insists that even
> if every offending device and system were to magically
> disappear overnight, the warming process would
> continue.
>
> Our century long, uncontrolled experiment has achieved
> runaway.
Not exactly, so far.
Much of the annoyance directed at the notion of remediation is its popularity among the very folks who've seamlessly gone from saying that global warming isn't happening to saying that it's not our fault, and that it's beneficial anyway. Even then, I don't think they've actually talked much about remediation except in the comfortable abstract, with little mention of the Netherlands, much less Bangladesh.
Remember that the very people who have plotted out a certain amount of inevitability of a coming crisis have also emphasized the urgency of preventing the worst case scenarios -- Jim Hansen's ten years, a year or so ago.
This is independent of any imagined benefits of neo-agrarianism.
-- Andy