I thought this was worth sharing. How often does our country plan for 10, 20, 100 years down the road? Not often. And certainly not when it comes to climate change. But for nuclear and Yucca Mountain, try 1 million years. For example, how do you go about notifying populations of future millennia?
We have looked very closely at what WIPP is doing -- the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico. They did a study with futurists and other people-sociologists and language specialists. They decided to come up with markers in seven languages, basically like a Rosetta Stone, with the idea that there will always be someone in the world who studies ancient languages, even 10,000 years from now, someone who will be able to resurrect what the meanings of these stelae are. They will basically say, "This is not a place of honor, don't dig here, this is not good material," etc.
(h/t Kottke.)
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