• 主题
高级搜索  >
历史搜索 清空历史
首页> 外文期刊>Ethics, policy and environment >On Staying Focused: Response to Thorn Brooks' How Not To Save the Planet
【24h】

On Staying Focused: Response to Thorn Brooks' How Not To Save the Planet

机译：保持专注：应对Thorn Brooks的《如何不拯救地球》

获取原文
获取原文并翻译 | 示例
           
页面导航
  • 摘要
  • 著录项
  • 相似文献
  • 相关主题

摘要

It's easy to experience a slight vertigo effect when viewing a chart displaying the Holocene era of climate history. The striking isolation of the past 10,000 years of stable and accommodating average temperatures-largely responsible for the development of human civilization-ominously contrast with the preceding several hundred thousand years which, along with being far colder, were marked by far more temperature variability, often swinging by averages of 10-15℃ over matters of decades. Widespread agriculture was all but impossible under such conditions, and thus, had the climate not suddenly stabilized for the past several millennia at a productive 2℃ variance, it is possible human intelligence, having relatively recently emerged, would eventually have faded away.The almost implausible unlikelihood of the Holocene's hospitality to human life bears disturbing implications for the future, and it is on these implications that Thom Brooks bases his argument. At some point in the relative near future, our climate is certain to become much less friendly to human civilization. There is no hope of avoiding this catastrophe: it is simply a factual reality, consequential to living on the kind of planet we do. Brooks argues that this reality should change our response to the problem of climate change. Since a climate catastrophe is not an 'if?' question but a 'when?'question, Brooks argues that the heavy emphasis placed on, for instance, reducing our carbon footprint in order to avoid catastrophic climate change is a misuse of resources, since such a catastrophe will occur one way or the other regardless. He argues instead that we should focus more on adaptation strategies: for instance, building sturdy, climate resilient buildings and communities; genetic engineering for more hardy people, and crops that can thrive in poor conditions; decreasing the size of the human population to something manageable in poorer climatic conditions.
机译：查看显示全新世气候历史图表的图表时，很容易会遇到轻微的眩晕感。过去10,000年稳定和适应的平均温度显着地与世隔绝，这与人类文明的发展起了很大的作用，这与过去的几十万年形成了鲜明的对比，前几十年由于温度低得多，通常温度变化多得多几十年来平均摆动10-15℃。在这种情况下，几乎不可能实现广泛的农业，因此，在过去的几千年中，如果气候不会突然稳定在2℃的高水平变化，那么相对较新出现的人类情报可能最终会消失。全新世对人类生活的待客之道令人难以置信，这对未来产生了令人不安的影响，而汤姆·布鲁克斯正是基于这些影响提出了自己的论点。在相对不久的将来的某个时刻，我们的气候必将对人类文明变得不那么友好。避免这种灾难是没有希望的：这只是事实现实，对生活在我们所生活的星球上是必然的。布鲁克斯认为，这种现实应该改变我们对气候变化问题的反应。由于气候灾难不是“如果？”布鲁克斯认为这是一个“何时”的问题，但他强调说，重点放在例如减少我们的碳足迹以避免灾难性的气候变化上是对资源的滥用，因为这样的灾难将以一种或另一种方式发生。相反，他认为我们应该更多地关注适应策略：例如，建造坚固，具有气候适应力的建筑物和社区；为更坚强的人们和在恶劣条件下可以繁衍生息的农作物进行基因工程；在较差的气候条件下将人口数量减少到可以控制的水平。

著录项

  • 来源
    《Ethics, policy and environment》 |2016年第2期|157-159|共3页
  • 作者

    Jonathan Peter Schwartz;

  • 作者单位

    Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA;

  • 收录信息
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类
  • 关键词

相似文献

  • 外文文献
  • 中文文献
  • 专利
获取原文

客服邮箱：kefu@zhangqiaokeyan.com

京公网安备：11010802029741号 ICP备案号：京ICP备15016152号-6 六维联合信息科技 (北京) 有限公司©版权所有

  • 客服微信

  • 服务号