Here we go again.Man is a magnificent creature [ye are gods] - a bio-engineering marvel - but the icing on the cake is his intellect, his reasoning powers, the ability to subjugate his environment to himself.
Like all fabulous machines, he needs to operate within his design parameters. A Ferrari or Aston Martin is at the pinnacle of design but doesn't do so well as a heavy lifting truck or off-road. It's not designed for it.
We operate in an eco-system which is very delicate. We start playing about with this and we're inviting trouble.
Take the
"We are still in the experimental stage," the China Daily quoted Zhang Qiang, an official in charge of the capital's artificial rain-making and prevention programme, as saying. "Cloud dispersal is more difficult than seeding and we are working on it."
Wang Yubin, a Beijing meteorologist, said the weather bureau, which is well-practised at firing chemical-infused rockets into clouds to prompt much-needed downpours, would use "catalytic agents to force rain clouds, should there be any, to burst hours before the opening ceremony", to ensure good weather.
Uh-huh and maybe he should add "ensuring far reaching catastrophic consequences in the long term by altering the balance of the troposphere which in turn impinges on the spheres above and on the earth and oceans below".
This is sheer stupidity.
James,
ReplyDeleteI've always wondered about the long term consequences of the exploding of nuclear devices in the upper atmosphere by the Americans. Was that the real cause of the damage to the ozone layer? The fact that they continue to act as they do is no surprise especially when it is cloaked as experiments. The justification, of course, will be the use the technology could be put to in drought areas.
Do you think these people have been gratified by the meek submission to anti-smoking laws?
STB
I agree that this is crazy but I don't think you can blame humanism!
ReplyDeleteSTB - easy to blame the Chinese and the American HAARP but the Russian Woodpeckr is just as much to blame too.
ReplyDeleteWCL - can't blame humanism? It's precisely humanism which enables man to put himself above nature. That's the very character of humanism - man at the centre and all else swirling round him. That's what gives rise to these behaviours.
Societies like the aborigines do not destroy the environment because each element is sacred. To a humanist, nothing but man is sacred.
combine this with the Three Rivers Dam and the railroad to the Tibetan Plateau and you get a catastrophe waiting to happen, but not waiting long methinks.
ReplyDeleteUntil we (mankind) realize we are part of this planet and that every other life form is interchangeable with us we will not honor life nor preserve it. I am not speaking only spiritually but biologically. The Cooperation not Competition is a biological theory that is gathering more support, and Chaos Theory is the very definition of needed respect for all life forms, including the earth and the oceans.