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POPSBiofuels Bad for the Environment (Feb 08) The last line is especially noteworthy: we know less than we think we do about these matters. We therefore risk unintended consequences that could make things worse rather than better.
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POPSSave Lives Today - Or Waste Money Doing Almost Nothing for Tomorrow's Problems? (May 09) Money is always limited. If we spend billions on X, we can't also afford to do Y. It seems to me we should all have a little more faith in future generations, in human ingenuity. Google is only 10 years old. The World Wide Web is only 20. Not so long ago there was no email, no BlackBerry's, no GPSs. Which means that, a century from now, people will have tools we haven't even dreamed of to help them meet environmental & other challenges. For us to assume they'll be helpless bystanders seems pretty insulting.