Bad SF lexicon

[Mark A. Mandel]

Jeff Prucher <jprucher at YAHOO.COM> wrote:
    >>>>>

                 I've found two distinct ways that people refer
to terraforming the Earth.  One is used largely by environmentalists, and
refers to the affect humans have had on the Earth's environment (global
warming, extinctions, etc.).
 <<<<<

Do they use it transitively? In that sense, "terraforming the Earth" seems
redundant.

-- Mark A. Mandel
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