From: Dan Hook (dhook@andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: Sun Jul 18 1999 - 20:04:51 MDT
> Now, with regards to this, there are some problems. One is moral. The
> impact of such a change would be far reaching and would affect the lives of
> humans and nonhuman animals, probably adversely in the case of the latter.
> Add to this the affect on the region's weather patterns and the like.
Would that destroy the Rift Lakes? I'm not much of a conservationist
myself, but something about flooding out the location of the most rapid
vertebrate evolution ever strikes me as unaesthetic. Plus, the fish from
that area look really nice in tanks.
And what would be the benefits of this anyway? It doesn't sound any more
like ultratechnology or macro engineering than towing icebergs to water
California does, and the side effects are less clear.
Dan Hook
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