Well said. Cleaning up the planet offers benefits at every level. And it won't make it colder next winter:-). Paul On Feb 17, 2008, at 4:31 AM, Bob W wrote:
> > http://www.lewrockwell.com/miller/miller21.html > > We should take this one very seriously indeed. It's hosted by a > Rockwell, so it must be right. > > In many important ways it doesn't matter one bit whether global > warming is happening or not because the measures we should be taking > to reduce it are things we should be doing anyway because they make > our lives much pleasanter. > > Fossil fuel emissions are filthy and unhealthy. They choke our cities > and our countryside, and they make the lives of millions, if not > billions of people thoroughly unpleasant. Cleaner, sustainable fuels > must be a good thing - the only possible downside to them is the cost, > and we're plenty rich enough to afford it. Anyone who remembers what > British cities were like before the Clean Air Act must know what a > difference it made; even better results are likely to accrue from a > global clean-up, whether it saves the planet or not. > > Similar reasoning applies to recycling our rubbish, reducing landfill, > plastic and so on. What arguments can people produce in favour of > continuing the way we've been going for so long, polluting and abusing > our habitat? All this filth and crap that we dump makes our lives, and > the lives of billions, far worse than it needs to be. What's wrong > with cleaning it up just for the sake of improving our lives? We > shouldn't need the pistol of global warming to be held to our temples > to make us do the right thing. > > The only people who argue against this are the polluters themselves, > who don't suffer from their filth and crap anyway, and stand to lose > some of their $$$ billions. Tough luck on them. > > Bob > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >> Behalf Of Scott Loveless >> Sent: 17 February 2008 05:00 >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> Subject: Re: Global warming: Icy lolipops >> >> >> http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070228-mars-wa >> rming.html >> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/07/1 >> 8/wsun18.xml >> http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/04/29/is-global-warmin >> g-solar-induced/ >> http://www.lewrockwell.com/miller/miller21.html >> http://www.livescience.com/environment/070312_solarsys_warming.html >> http://www.aip.org/pnu/2003/split/642-2.html >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_controversy#Altern >> ate_hypotheses >> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/03/030321075236.htm >> >> But it's just a crackpot theory. It's not like they're ALL >> scientists. >> You know, like us. >> > > > -- > 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.
