An interesting view on global warming and other issues

I friend just brought this link: http://www.michaelcrichton.com/speeches/complexity/complexity.html

to my attention and I found it quite interesting. Crichton makes a decent point about how humans tend to take decisive action with insufficient information and make things much worse than they seem. To top it off people then have a strong resistance to admitting they are wrong. Yellowstone is a great example of this, one that is still ongoing.

Some of his arguments regarding global warming are only partly true IMO. Yes, it's true that in the last 150 years we have steadily moved towards fuel sources that use less carbon. However, it is also true that our overall use of those fuels has expanded so much that we are continually putting more carbon in the air. We need to take a serious look as to the effects this is having on our environment and quickly decide whether action needs to be taken or not.

In all likelihood this issue will have a minimal impact on the life of anyone reading this. Our children and grandchildren, however, are a different story. I don't want to be known as the generation that spoiled the nest for everyone else.