Reply to Spadlet
Dear Spadlet,
Righto. I've been a geologist since '71, B.Sc., University of Cape Town. Sub-major was oceanography/marine geology. No other tickets, but did later major in anthropology, for fun. Lots of other work, but mostly an exploration geologist, after base metals, gold and coal. For companies, as a consultant and as a junior explorer. I am not a geophysicist but was lucky enough to have a superb innovator on my team once, who taught me how to use the tools. We did a lot of work comparing different types of data across maps, looking for corrrelations. As a hobby, I spent a few years trying to work out an alternative geology to NASA's past wet Mars model. Try "The long-winded model of Mars" on Google. Hence the "whole planet" perspective. Or attempt at it.
As to political biases, I am of the left and an ex anti-apartheid stirrer. I was once a director of Friends of the Earth (CapeTown) and ran the office there for a year. Camped under a large plastic whale outside the Japanese embassy, etc. Still a greenie. As this always arises, no funding from anywhere, though I would take backing from the devil for this one, if he offered. No particular love or dislike of the oil and coal majors, have worked for several of them, some excellent, some awful. My office is a thirty-year-old drillers' caravan and I live in another, on a patch of land that is so beautiful you might petrify from envy. I have no belief in sky fairies, tree spirits or the rest, just an abiding interest in ancient and modern priestly frauds, from the anthropology angle. So, the gods are innocent of abetting this speculation. Last, I am not of the believing classes, so I do not "believe" what I suggest, I just put it up for consideration.
I am a bit bothered about the oil running out fairly soon and would like to help shift some of the attention of folk concerned with the common good, to how best to cope with that.
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