RE: Europe, the US, and Environmentalism

[Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLBD/BGM/SVM/SGM]

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: John D. Giorgis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Verzonden: Thursday, July 19, 2001 4:09 AM
> Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Onderwerp: RE: Europe, the US, and Environmentalism

> >Using less energy means less pollution. What is silly about getting
> >people to cut back on their energy consumption to reduce pollution?
> 
> Because its not associated with a cost-benefit analysis.

<sigh>

John, when are you going to wake up and realize you can't base every
decision on a cost-benefit analysis?

Let's say you spend $50 to take your girlfriend out to dinner. Do you do
that because you enjoy her company, or do you do that because you think
"when I spend that $50 on buying her dinner, she'll have sex with me later,
which I value at $100, so it's beneficial for me to take her out to dinner"?
(Forget for a moment that you're one of those "no sex before marriage"
people.)

Other example: unemployed people cost the country a lot of money in
Unemployment Benefits and Welfare, but they don't give anything in return.
The same goes for people who can't work because of some medical condition.
Based on a cost-benefit analysis, it would be economical to shoot them all.
It may cost you 25 cents per person for the bullet, but it will save you
billions of dollars in Social Security and Health Care expenses...


> We can lower pollution by cutting power to hospitals too.

Are you at all capable of discussing this seriously, or are you only going
to come up with idiot remarks like that one?

To use your logic: you exist, therefore you pollute. So, we could also
reduce pollution by killing you. Not a great solution, is it?


Jeroen

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