Hi Pascal,

Thanks for weighing in! Your first paragraph especially brings up an interesting point, and puts more succinctly some of the things I was trying to say in my earlier comments. When we’re talking about the climate of a planet, we can’t really predict what effect our actions will have in the long run.

But the argument can be made that…[Read more]

Thanks for posting the follow up to the Haida Salmon experiment. In general I agree with the conclusions of the article: that it might be appropriate to reconsider the experiment, with proper scientific backing and with suitable monitoring. As the article notes, the link between the iron dumping and the higher fish yields is unproved at…[Read more]

Hi durbow,

I think you’re right, that geoengineering (as all things) should be approached sensibly. It’s very easy to look at ideas like geoengineering and get very afraid–some of them sound scary! But it’s not inherently bad to discuss the ideas, and to consider them as real-world possibilities (because they are possibilities.) And, as you say,…[Read more]

Very interesting! I’m intrigued by the work of the Dutch plantlab you link to–it seems like they’re doing some really neat stuff. I’m a little skeptical about David Berry’s Solve for X talk. His idea sounds great, but he doesn’t go into much detail about this miraculous, CO2 eating, salt-water-tolerant, low-light, pure-nutrient-secreting,…[Read more]

From what I understand, we can use the group page as a way to 1] make announcements that everyone in the group will see, and 2] further develop ideas using the “docs” page (<a […]

Hey all–we made a public group for discussions about food and agriculture! I sent invites to some of you in this thread, but I couldn’t find everybody.  You can join here: <a […]