[Call for Paper - SCOPUS/ISI THOMSON] ICESTI 2014, September 10-13, 2014, Kuta Bali - Indonesia

[Chris Angelico]

On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 3:23 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Sat, 03 May 2014 15:50:40 +0000, Denis McMahon wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 03 May 2014 06:51:02 -0700, icesti2014editor wrote:
>>
>>> sharing best practice in the field of Engineering, Science, and
>>> Technology towards sustainable development.
>>
>>> The first event of this conference series (ICESTI 2014) will be held in
>>> Bali, Indonesia
>>
>> Let's all fly to Bali in the name of sustainability and preserving the
>> planet, and damn the CO2 created by doing so.
>
> Pennywise and pound-foolish perhaps? If spending a few thousand tonnes of
> CO2 enables the saving of a few million tonnes, I think that would be
> well worth it.

And if setting up a Mailman list to discuss the exact same content
would be as effective as a conference, then it would be anything but.
We can't know.

What we *do* know is that putting the word "sustainable" into a
proposal makes it a lot easier for people to get funding. Even more
so, further down, "Climate Change Mitigation". For better or for
worse, that's how a lot of the world allocates money.

By the way, thank you both for saying "CO2" and not "carbon". If I had
a black balloon for every time someone talked about how much carbon
was created in such-and-such, I could make my own global warming
advert...

ChrisA