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Subject: SPACE Digest V11 #385
SPACE Digest Volume 11 : Issue 385
Today's Topics:
How is HST?
Re: Terraforming Venus (was: Manned mission to Venus)
Re: Terraforming Venus (was: Manned mission to Venus)
From: usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!mailrus!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!watdragon!watyew!jdnicoll@ucsd.edu (Brian or James)
Subject: Terraforming Earth
The major problem with TFing Terra is that there is an
indigenous populations, substes of which will never be able
to reconcile desires for the 'new' terrestrial climate.
If you increase rainfall in North Africa, and that change
turned out to require cooling down the Ukraine below the
temperatures Ukrainians need to farm in, there will be
disagreement [This problem isn't one for unoccupied
worlds, but TFers might run into problems if humans are
allowed to imigate prior to the completon of the
TFing]. If you get rid of the Earth's population, this problem
*does* go away, of course :)
You'll even get complaints because people in small regions will
not agree what they want [or need] as the ideal climate. In Ontario,
for example, there are about eight million people who react with
surprise and horror every time the mysterious white topsoil
appears [After half a millenium of colonising North America,you'd
think people would realise this is a temperate to artic nation].
Why we are stuck with the lost tribes of Florida I do not know,
but they, no doubt, would want an absurdly warm climate.