Yes, I can read. It is not as warm today as it was a 1000 years ago. But then I go through this every time the global warming crap comes up here on the list, why don't you guys remember what I wrote, even if you don't agree with it. I sure remember the doomsayers here a year ago, and 5 years a go, and elsewhere 10, 15, 20, 30, 40, and 50 years ago. Before that I was not personally paying attention. However, I read that they have been singing their "it is all going to hell in a hand basket" song for the past 20,000 years or so, probably longer but there are no records of what they were saying. I remember reading that all life would be wiped from the face of the earth by 1966; funny, the afterlife seems no different from real life.
In fact things have improved in just my lifetime. People did not used to wear hats and topcoats for the weather, they wore them to keep the soot and dirt off their hair and indoor cloths. You could not swim in, or eat fish from the Great Lakes. The little guy has done more than his share, it is time to make the big guys pony their share. Why should the guy who can barely feed his family have to buy a new car that will meet current emissions standards, while Duke Power dumps ten-twenty times as much crap in the air as all the cars in the state of NC? (Retorical question, I know damn well, why.) And for you anti-technology types, pick out which 90% of your friends and reletives you are willing to kill to go back to the uncomfortable, miserable, disease ridden, hungry, era. I would rather breath auto exhaust than coal soot, and powdered horse shit. And I have no intention of living with the livestock because the keep the house warmer. And how about not naming the baby until it was two because it probably would not live long enough to need a name? "The GOOD OLD DAYS" never were. I have been thinking lately about my parents generation. The went through the depression, WWII, Korea, and the A-bomb scares yet maintained a "things are getting better" outlook. You people who have never been hungry, scared, homeless, nor hopeless think the world is falling apart. In my life I have met there people who thought they were wealthy. The first said. "I owe 5 million dollars, so I must be rich". The second said, "Those idiots are paying me $14 an hour to do nothing, as long as I have that job, I'd be crazy not to be happy". The third said, "When I need it, God, will see that it is there". The other businessment around the first was screaming the the were being driven into the poorhouse. Those other factory workers around the second were screaming that they were overworked and underpaid. The other people around the third were too busy trying to survive to take the time to scream anything. Have you (general you) ever thought about the fact that we here are this list are so well off that we are only bothered by things that do not affect us directly. The other 80% of the people in the world should have it so good. William Robb wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "graywolf" > Subject: Re: Doomsday is coming upon us? > > > Ah, suffering from a bit of a god complex, are you? We must be causing > the world to do this and that? Got news, the world is going to do > whatever the world wants to do, including exterminating mankind. We do > not have the power you are imagining we do. > > Some of the most respected scientists in the world seem to think we are > causing a change in the climate. > The northern Inuit are definitely be affected by a warming of their habitat. > Do you know something they don't? > > > William Robb > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
