Fairness demands that societies value the ecosystem, and put resources into both the nourishment and protection of the treasured primordial ecosystems, and that the costs be borne by the larger society and not dumped on the rural folks who, for example, used to be dependent on logging. Present law seems to fall on one side or the other, weakening the mechanism that could protect the ecological legacy.

Here in California, down near Moro Bay, the seashore used to be miles out to sea. This was during the time that modern Humans lived in California. Those humans adjusted to the sea level increase, some dozens of feet, so I imagine our descendents will adjust to the changes brought about by the melting of so many glaciers, so much of the polar ice caps.

I hope that desertification is not allowed to proceed the way it appears to be spreading now, I hope that it is arrested and reversed through the terra-forming here. Desertification is almost irreversible within generations, but climate modeling can guide us to use our efforts in the most intelligent way, the most effective way.

An example is the discovery that a chunk of forest at roughly the center of the continent would double the rainfall across the whole continent (from almost none to some), a very amazing way to influence climate, and to encourage plant growth across a huge area, a lot of biomass. I'm a long way away from believing that a model is enough to start a huge civil engineering effort, but it is time to start thinking along those lines, learning to protect the species left. I fear that the next 300 years will challenge a significant fraction of the species as the disruptions from climate change are worked through.

Anyway, time to feed the cats.