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Neal Stephenson: Termination Shock

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We can't have those ferrets coming back. It is an odd am ofaa habit of thought hat we've got into. And the precautionary principle is there for good reasonswe weve screwed much stuff up. One of the great things about charles mann's books, 14 91, 14 93, is the completely ing the idea that that there was such thing as christine nature. You know, indigenous peoples all over the world were were geo engineering their their ego systems and their climate for tens of thousands of years before the first settlers even showed up. Yes, that seems to be fine, saido engineering haphazardly. But ye, if we do it with intention

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