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There is no easy fix for climate change. The sooner we get to grips with that, argues Adam Ma the sooner we can ditch the guilt and get active.
Marcel Baker
every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong. Mencken, journalist and social critic (1880-1956)
When British physicist Freeman Dyson wrote in 1972 of his dream of the of the galaxy in which humans would populate the stars by means of massive genetically engineered trees planted on comets few took him seriously. Likewise when he advocated triggering nuclear explosions underneath space probes as a means of propulsion, most gave the idea a bemused miss. Dyson is, however, a tenacious character. When in 1977 he advocated using trees to soak up excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, people took notice.1 Third time lucky.
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