Environmental groups started waking up to this strategy in the fight against Northern Gateway, but it needs to
happen on a bigger scale.
Not exact matches
But Graff's
biggest nightmare has already
happened on a small
scale.
The story of how that
happened is a tale of levees, oil wells and canals leading to destruction
on a
scale almost too
big to comprehend — and perhaps too late to rebuild.
Right now lot of people are using computational codes to simulate the event, but what I'd like to do is that actually do the whole
scale event in small
scale; and that way we'll understand why craters look like [they] it do
on places like the Moon, Mercury and Mars and Venus; and what might
happen to the Earth if we got hit by the next
big one.
Cases of data theft do
happen from time to time and
on big scales too.
The book, which I just
happened to read
on impulse back in 2006, isn't
big on set pieces or large -
scale storytelling.
Because the
biggest problems in this are things that will
happen on the time
scale of decades or centuries, and we can't say how rapid that's going to be although it looks more and more rapid as we see what's
happening around Antarctica.
How do we make more of these projects
happen here, like the 225 megawatts of utility -
scale solar FPL is developing in Florida or the
big solar arrays Southern Power is building
on military bases across the Southeast?
Yes, alternatives are technically possible, but not at all likely
on the
scale and timeframes needed if global oil production declines soon (as is
happening for Greater Burgan, the world's second
biggest oilfield).
Everyone agrees
big changes can
happen fast
on climate time -
scales.
Let's begin with the large -
scale changes that are necessary, and work backwards to see what we can do as individuals
on a smaller
scale to make those
big changes
happen.