Delighted to see Fred associated with the notion of "Engineering a good Anthropocene" after a number of disagreements on some efforts to do that.
The challenge of course will be to agree on how to set up the political system that decides what is good and what is not.
It would be helpful, as a start, to accept the principle that local preferences should guide local decisions. Too much of the environmental debate over the past two decades has been about people (generally from the north) seeking to impose their preferences on the south. Or, as they learnt to get more nuanced about it, using their resources to co-opt just enough voices in the south to appear credible.
Delighted to see Fred associated with the notion of "Engineering a good Anthropocene" after a number of disagreements on some efforts to do that.
The challenge of course will be to agree on how to set up the political system that decides what is good and what is not.
It would be helpful, as a start, to accept the principle that local preferences should guide local decisions. Too much of the environmental debate over the past two decades has been about people (generally from the north) seeking to impose their preferences on the south. Or, as they learnt to get more nuanced about it, using their resources to co-opt just enough voices in the south to appear credible.