If global warming is as horrible as you believe it to be, Judy, then I expect you to IMMEDIATELY:
1) stop driving a car 2) stop owning a car 3) stop driving IN cars 4) stop taking airplanes, jets or otherwise. Please report back to us how you're getting on --- In [email protected], "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thoughts interleaved below. > > --- authfriend wrote: > > > > Until the global warming crisis is validated by > > disaster, there will always be a few die-hard skeptics > > who refuse to wake up. ... > > And isn't crisis the only thing that really precipitates > change? I know in my life, I keep trying to perpetuate > old modes of living until they become absolutely untenable. > > It's like hitting bottom in the 12-step world, or that > statement Maharishi makes in his Gita commentary > about God only reappearing when life on Earth can > get no more wicked. > > > What needs to change is the media. Until the media > > stops quoting those diehard few for "balance," as if > > their point of view was equally valid, the faux > > controversy will appear to continue. > > I don't know for sure, but it seems to me that within > a week of "An Inconvenient Truth" coming to theaters, > I noted a change in reporting. I seem to recall one > story that took man-made climate change as the > given, and barely mentioned the naysayers in passing. > > It would be interesting to check in with the journalism > reviews in a few months or a year to see if they track > media treatment of the story. > > > > --- authfriend wrote: > > > > > > > > Excerpts from "THE HEAT IS ON: The warming of the world's climate > > > > sparks a blaze of denial" by Ross Gelbspan, from Harper's > > > > magazine, December 1995 > > <snip> > > http://dieoff.org/page82.htm > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/2pRQfA/bOaOAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
