[FRIAM] Edge: The Need for Heretics

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If multiplying our impacts has unexpected effects, maybe we shouldn't mess with that then.... Shouldn't interfear in the plan?
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From: "Roger Critchlow" <rec at elf.org>

Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 12:07:54 
To:"The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group" <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Edge: The Need for Heretics


On 8/12/07, David Mirly <mirly at comcast.net <mailto:mirly at comcast.net> > wrote: 
2) It would be wise to attempt to minimize our impacts on such a
complex system when we don't even partially understand the consequences.

Just to beat on the defenders of the status quo some more, their rationale for denying climate change and not messing with the economy is essentially the same:  it, the economy, is a complex system where we don't even partially understand the consequences of even small changes, so it would be wise to minimize our impacts on it. 

So we have the same rhetoric of conservatism on both sides of the question.

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