PlanetNiles

I’m going to put this out in the open: I’m somewhat sceptical regarding man-made climate change. I’ve read both sides of the argument, looked at the alleged evidence and found everything very much wanting. Really, despite my uncle being a supposed ringleader of the alleged ‘Deniers’ camp, I might of well flip a coin to decide where my allegiance lay. Then I chatting to some transhumanist friends (pro man-made climate change; if we can change climates then we can take solar systems apart and turn them into super computers) when it struck me; there’s no plan B.

That scared me.

Look at it this way: You live in a house on a flood plain, thanks to global warming your home is flooded almost annually. Now you’re told that flood defences are being built and miraculously property prices are as yet unaffected. Plan A, the cheap and easy plan, would be to stay put and place your trust in the defences. Plan B? Surely you’d think of moving to a home on higher ground just to be sure. Or maybe as the flood season comes around again you put all your real valuables into storage where they’ll be safe and dry.

Either way you’d have a backup plan.

So, where’s the backup plan regarding climate change?

We’re told that sea levels will rise, unless we change our ways so why is all the focus on changing our ways? We should at the very least be considering the possibility that it’s too late or that we can’t change our ways quickly enough and plan accordingly. But apparently not.

My point is that there’s no fall back plan if, or since we’re as close to the wire as we’re told, when we cross over the brink.  There are solutions to rapidly shrinking landmasses but they appear to be being ignored by the powers that be.   I’m fond of the idea of Seasteading.  Seasteading is building living space above water, a process which leaves available land surface free for agriculture. It’s not a new idea, indeed Europe and notably Great Britain already have the foundations of a Seasteading industry and have been using it for industrial purposes for decades. Let me make it obvious for you:

This is a basic Seastead circa later 20th Century.

If you look at the link I provided you to the Seasteading Institute, you’ll see the current state of support  the idea is getting currently. Why aren’t governments all over the world pouring funds into this kind of thing? Yeah I know the Seasteading Institute has this whole “getting away from existing governments” thing going on but let’s be realistic.

Perhaps all the money is going into funding conferences about climate change? I mean these people fly around the world producing vast quantities of CO2 to meet  with other people who also have flown there producing vast quantities of CO2 to have vast conferences that generate huge amounts of CO2 to discuss just how CO2 is destroying the world. Have these people not heard of Skype? Have they considered meeting in a virtual space such as Second Life?

They’re not behaving like how I’d expect people trying to save the world from man-made climate change to behave.

Oh and they also don’t appear to have a plan B.

And that really really scares me.