Originally Posted by
Roody
We have endless tricks to delude ourselves that we are doing something constructive about the problems of pollution and resource depletion.
Still with all the modelling software available, you'd think that these delusions could be dealt with in a cold, mathematical fashion. I'm sure if you throw all the variables in to a model, run it forward a few years, the answer should be simple.
Fact is that we aren't interested in solving the equations that point us in the direction of salvation. It's quicker to throw up something that sounds great on first glance... as long as it doesn't rock the boat too much.