On Jul 14, 6:39 am, Eric Swanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's easy to forget that we in the U.S. are
> presently in a conflict with a world view that doesn't give a damn
> about the western scientific point of view. The Islamist view ...
Our leaders and theirs worry me. They threaten to treat the world
worse than we are doing.
But no worse than we have when we felt the need, if you figure
Dresden, Tokyo and Hiroshima and Nagasaki are benchmarks for policy.
Both claim special guidance from their diety.
Yet we did recognize and end production of the most powerful
greenhouse gases -- the CFCs -- though we at the time didn't know that
was part of the problem with them because we barely had caught onto
the ozone catalysis issue.
The "we" involved changes. If we'd start electing people who
understood any science at all and keep doing that for a century, I'd
feel like we were coming a bit close to what Franklin and Jefferson
and Paine wanted for us to be doing with the government they kicked
off here.
--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated
venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of
global environmental change.
Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the
submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not
gratuitously rude.
To post to this group, send email to [email protected]
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
