>----- Original Message ----- >From: "P. J. Alling" Subject: Re: Doomsday is coming upon us? > > >That's been news for a couple of days. Assuming that climate change is >something we could halt, even the best estimates seem to show a 10 or >more year lag between action and effect. Putting the Polar Bear on the >endangered list is an exercise in feel good activity. If the arctic ice >is melting as fast as some seem to think, Polar Bears will be extinct >long before anything done to stop it takes effect. > >So you propose that maintaining the status quo is acceptable since the harm >is already done and likely irreversible anyway? > >William Robb >
That would be sort of like saying "I see the ship is heading for the dock, there's not enough time to avoid hitting it, so why put the engines in reverse"? Tom C. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
