The biggest contribution to the environment the US and Canada could make would be to shut down the coal-fired power plants. Too many of them are grandfathered from environmental regulations and are extremely dirty.
To give my local government credit, they're actually trying to get rid of coal plants (About the only useful thing the Ontario government has done), but Ontario is currently far too reliant on them. -Adam P. J. Alling wrote: > Very little fossil fuel if I can believe the local utility. > > William Robb wrote: >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "P. J. Alling" >> Subject: Re: Doomsday is coming upon us? >> >> >> >>>>>> .Should I stop >>>>>> >>>>> taking hot, (or cold), showers in solidarity with you? >>>>> >>>>> >>>> No, but if you could keep them down to no longer than a couple of >>>> minutes, I'd appreciate it. >>>> >>>> >>> Why prey tell should I? It will end up in the Ocean to be recycled by >>> nature either way. >>> >> If the global warming pundits are correct, then the fossil fuels used to >> heat that water are contributing to a global problem (presuming you use >> fossil fuel rather than atomic power to run your hot water tank), and you >> may be, in a small way, contributing to heating the ocean. >> >> William Robb >> >> >> >> > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
