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With the recent posts on Grist and The Atlantic “breaking” the news that NASA found Beijing’s Olympic controls worked, I would like to once again reiterate my point.

So What.

Both Grist and Fallows seem to follow the same line that:

corrective steps can improve even the most hopeless-seeming environmental disasters. It’s worth trying to do something

I would disagree. strongly.

In fact, while I would agree that no options should be taken off the table, highlighting that fact that shutting down 3 provinces for a period of 6 weeks as a solution is simply not helping to address the problems long term… in any fashion.

Sure, we can solve the problem by all turning everything off.. forever.. and promise not to buy anything… again…or.. we can accept the fact that we are humans who CONSUME, and that we have some core issues that need to be addressed through long term planning, measurements, and corrective measures.

so.. it is not worth just trying anything.  Those times are past, and the measurements from proving the obvious to me are simply not adding to the process.

Far more interesting to me would be along the lines of the impact on the 6 months of reduced cars on the road vis-a-vis respiratory ailments.. % increase in public tranport ridership and satisfaction with ridership experience… the energy intensity measurements of building built since 2007 vs. those built in 1997 vs. those being planned for 2010..