Michael Foster
Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:33:50 -0700
Jed wrote:
> I concur with Nick Palmer. I do not now of any knowledgeable
>
> environmental scientists in favor of ethanol. Some amateur
> environmentalists and politicians favor it. Most mass media
> reporters
> and editorial writers were in favor of it until a few
> months ago, but
> as Truman said of the 50 most distinguished Washington
> journalists:
> "I know all 50 of those fellows and there isn't a
> single one who has
> enough sense to pour sand in a rat hole"
I think you guys missed my point. Whether you like it or not, mass media
reporters, politicians, and amateur environmentalists *are* the environmental
movement in the mind of the public. Their clownish antics will eventually
discredit serious environmental efforts.
Exaggerating or lying in a good cause is going to have an effect as well. When
you get greedy hypocritical hucksters like Al Gore receiving a Nobel Prize for
releasing a film whose ridiculous pretense at scientific evidence is
discredited by realistic counterevidence and the discovery of using special
effects without saying that's what they are, there's going to be a backlash.
(Sorry, I'm the master of the run-on sentence.) Mr. Gore's credibility goes
down with every ludicrous pronouncement and prediction he makes. I was only
typical of him and his ilk to support making ethanol from corn. It was just the
flavor of the month.
M.
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