Frank, I'm a science/math kind of guy. I believe in something called the 2nd law of thermodynamics and entropy. It says clean will never easier/cheaper/faster/less costly, though it may be better. No brag, just fact. Regards, Bob S.
On Jan 28, 2008 3:12 PM, frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 28, 2008 3:42 PM, Bob Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Frank, > > I shouldn't, but... > > > > So I'm in the 3rd world, not enjoying the nice standard of living you > > have in Toronto. > > I'd like indoor plumbing, a clean/warm/dry place to sleep, and enough to > > eat. > > You guys burned all this fossil fuel, did all this pollution to raise > > your lifestyles. > > Now you want to prohibit us from doing the same in our lives? > > Without this, we can never develop a economic base to let us live as > > comfortably as you. > > Absolutely not! Please, have the lifestyle you want, whether you live > in India, China, Vietnam, wherever. > > The assumption is that industrialization will inevitably lead to > pollution. That fallacy is being perpetuated by our own corporate > leaders, who are profiting handsomely by having most of their > manufacturing done offshore where labour is cheap and the countryside > is contaminated in all sorts of ways from these new factories. They > want goods on the cheap, and they don't care to look to the long-term > effects on these populations. Local robber-barons are more than happy > to take our money to exploit their own workers, just as we in The West > did since the industrial revolution. > > In reality, starting out "green" is cheaper than "dirty", and these > developing countries have a wonderful opportunity to learn from our > mistakes and show us how we should have done it in the first place. > It also turns out that converting from "dirty" to "clean" is much much > cheaper than we're led to believe, and clean and green is far more > profitable than dirty in both the long and the short run. > > We all have to change our mindsets - it won't be painful at all, and > the results can only be good for all of us... > > cheers, > frank > > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
