RE: [biofuel] Who Owns The Sky?/off topic but worth it?

2002-01-18 Thread kirk
-Original Message- From: Alex McKinney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 5:19 AM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [biofuel] Who Owns The Sky?/off topic but worth it? I find it amazing that all the articles below state how another country's pollution is to

RE: [biofuel] Who Owns The Sky?/off topic but worth it?

2002-01-18 Thread Alex McKinney
on it, and eventually teach others. Good luck to all and keep up the good work. Alex McKinney Original Message Follows From: Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [biofuel] Who Owns The Sky?/off topic but wo

RE: [biofuel] Who Owns The Sky?/off topic but worth it?

2002-01-18 Thread Keith Addison
e doing?? Best wishes Keith Addison Journey to Forever Handmade Projects Tokyo http://journeytoforever.org/ >Original Message Follows >From: Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com >To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com >Subject: RE: [biofuel] Who

RE: [biofuel] Who Owns The Sky?/off topic but worth it?

2002-01-18 Thread Keith Addison
BRAD wrote: >I can't believe that you paint business men with such >a broad brush. Don't believe it then, because I didn't. But you are. >You assume that becuase someone is >interested in a profit that means at any cost? No, I don't assume that at all - it does happen, but so do a great many

RE: [biofuel] Who Owns The Sky?/off topic but worth it?

2002-01-18 Thread Brad Gordon
Well reasoned and well said I agree that many stand in the no smoking section, to follow your example, and assume noone else is bothered. There are some companies in the US that moved to Mexico about 15 years ago and did just that with harmful results. That was greed. Most people aren't n

RE: [biofuel] Who Owns The Sky?/off topic but worth it?

2002-01-18 Thread Dana Linscott
To get back to what I think was the original thought on this subject; Is it excessive greed that causes whole societies to ignore that their pollution is causing problems downstream or downwind, preferring to believe that if they stay in the "smoking section" it does not affect those in the non-s

RE: [biofuel] Who Owns The Sky?/off topic but worth it?

2002-01-18 Thread Brad Gordon
I can't believe that you paint business men with such a broad brush. You assume that becuase someone is interested in a profit that means at any cost? Profit is one of the greatest motivators there is. The ability to make more so you can provide better for your children etc. I work for a larg

RE: [biofuel] Who Owns The Sky?/off topic but worth it?

2002-01-18 Thread Alex McKinney
ility for their own actions. Alex McKinney Original Message Follows From: Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [biofuel] Who Owns The Sky?/off topic but worth it? Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 05:15:59 +0900 > &g

RE: [biofuel] Who Owns The Sky?/off topic but worth it?

2002-01-17 Thread r . p . kurz
GOD owns the sky and i'm afraid that he's not too happy with our stewardship of it. kind regards roger kurz > Andres, > >It is anybody«s wild guess when dollars will begin > > to obey the laws of > > nature. > > Andydownsouth > > Sadly the very concept of currency allows the > accumulati

RE: [biofuel] Who Owns The Sky?/off topic but worth it?

2002-01-17 Thread Keith Addison
> >It is anybody´s wild guess when dollars will begin > > to obey the laws of > > nature. > > Andydownsouth They do, once you ignore the spin that says otherwise. The winds of "free trade" quite naturally favour the ships with the biggest sails. "Free" market forces naturally drive goods toward

RE: [biofuel] Who Owns The Sky?/off topic but worth it?

2002-01-17 Thread Dana Linscott
Andres, >It is anybody´s wild guess when dollars will begin > to obey the laws of > nature. > Andydownsouth Sadly the very concept of currency allows the accumulation of "unatural" amounts of wealth. Without "chits" one would be unable to squirrel away more wealth than one had a "natural" ability

RE: [biofuel] Who Owns The Sky?

2002-01-17 Thread AndrŽs Stepkowski
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 9:25 AM Subject: RE: [biofuel] Who Owns The Sky? > the problem here that the sky puluted is not only owned by us citizens, and > the more afected by climate change are the citizens far awey the us, like > the ones afected by th

Re: [biofuel] Who Owns The Sky?

2002-01-17 Thread Olga Lange
I think there's an inherent problem with the whole idea of pollution credits and the commodifcation of our entire environment. How have we gotten to the point where we don't think it's absurd to charge rent for the sky? Also, as to who owns the sky, "we all do"--that all is not just homo sapiens.

RE: [biofuel] Who Owns The Sky?

2002-01-17 Thread M Rolan
the problem here that the sky puluted is not only owned by us citizens, and the more afected by climate change are the citizens far awey the us, like the ones afected by the mitch, or the starvation, on central america. and still other problem, big american enterprises goes to contaminate outsid