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Discussion around limiting climate change primarily focusses on whether the best results can be gained by individuals changing how they act, or governments introducing new legislation.
Now though, University of Leeds academics Dr Rob Lawlor and Dr Helen Morley from the Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied Centre suggest engineering professionals could also play a pivotal role, and could provide a co-ordinated response helping to mitigate climate change.
Writing in the journal Science and Engineering Ethics, they say engineering professional institutions could take a stand in tackling climate change by developing a declaration imposing restrictions and requirements on members.
"A strong and coordinated action by the engineering profession could itself make a significant difference in how we respond to climate change," they said.
"We know many engineers and firms make great efforts to be as environmentally friendly as possible, and research is carried out and supported by the sector to help reduce its impact on the world. We're suggesting that concerted action could improve this process further."
Quoting 2014 research by Richard Heede from the Climate Accountability Institute, they say nearly two-thirds of historic carbon dioxide and methane emissions could be attributed to crude oil and natural gas producers, coal extractors, and cement producers. These are industries typically enabled by the engineering profession.
They're looking at you, VW engineers.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday March 18 2017, @11:29PM (4 children)
Let's ignore the ignorance too, not ignoring it may impede in BS peddling.
La Niña - rains in Australia [abc.net.au], dry in South America. And the other way around with El Niño.
Not that this cycle has any relevance in what's your discou... err, sorry, rambling I mean.
No, never!!! The US Capitol is better raised level - more esthetically pleasing - we should strive every day to destroy it.
A call to action here - if every true American would take only a teaspoon of capitol every morning (to shit it next day), the capitolism will disappear in no time. (granted, the waste recycling plans may have some troubles with the .... umm... processed capitolism; those sleazy bastards seems to be quite sticky).
(grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2, Troll) by aristarchus on Sunday March 19 2017, @07:41PM (3 children)
Can we stop trying to destroy capitolism...?
No, never!!! The US Capitol is better raised level - more esthetically pleasing - we should strive every day to destroy it.
The First Rule of SoylentNews is . . . . The SECOND Rule of SoylentNews is, when pendantically responding to a misspelling by an uneducated climate-denying moron, always throw in one of your own, to help the moron spell more dumbly in the future. That is the only way we can raze them to our level of discourse!
(Score: 3, Touché) by c0lo on Sunday March 19 2017, @09:32PM (2 children)
I'll keep that rule in mind, magister; if inadvertently I'm so successful, who knows what I can do on porpoise? (grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday March 21 2017, @07:06AM (1 child)
Fly, my minions, or winged monkeys, or whatever! But get the hell off of that marine mammal! Just because there are "swim with the dolphins" programs where the dolphins seem like over V*aG3red Republican Senators, that is not reason to engage in inter-species Runaway1956 calling on line 4, please hold. Dolphins, you say?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday March 21 2017, @10:35AM
As uneducated climate-denying morons keep their head in the cloud of their ass and refuse to anchor their feed in the muddane reality, I though of enticing them with a marine presence. (grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford