When are you Yanks going to wake up to the fact we are in deeeeeep trouble? See: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/OklahomaDrought/
Cheers, Alastair. On Aug 24, 9:52 am, Alastair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just found a quote from All Gore in the on-line version of > chapter 1 from "Prescription For The Planet - The Painless Remedy for > our Energy & Environmental Criseshttp://www.prescriptionfortheplanet.com/ > > Al makes the point with much less brutality that I am trying to get > across. He said: > > "There are good people … who hold this at arm’s length because if they > acknowledge it and recognize it then the moral imperative to make big > changes is inescapable." > Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth > > In other words, it going to take a lot more than eating less meat to > get us out of this mess. And it is going to require the members of > the rich nations to become poorer. If they resist, which seems > extremely likely, then the result will be war, and poverty will be > forced upon them. In fact, the wars have already begun with Iraq, > where the US tried to get more oil supplies in order to maintain the > American Way of Life. As a result the US and the UK have been hit by > the Credit Crunch as the money runs out to pay for it! > > Cheers, Alastair. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
