Hi Darryl, You said it perfectly. Only criticize the non environmentalists and unite all of the environmentalists for the good of humanity.
Terry Dyck >From: Darryl McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org >To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org >Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Al Gore's 'Inconvenient Truth' Power Use >Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 12:53:48 -0500 > >Seems to me that humans are doing a pretty good job of eliminating >humans, by means direct and indirect. > >Getting back to Al Gore and the movie, "An Inconvenient Truth". > >I think Mr. Gore deserves whatever applause he is getting. Coming from >his community (professional politician, wealth), it took some courage >for him to invest this degree of himself in an unwelcome message. > >Does the movie soft-sell the reality? Of course it does, what else >could we expect at this point, let alone two years ago when it was being >made? Without question, it is a key reason that climate change is even >getting coverage in the mainstream media in the North American media. >(I would have thought Katrina would have done it, but as a story, I am >astonished how little coverage there is of the continuing plight of the >displaced and areas that have not recovered, let alone discussion of >whether or not N.O. should be rebuilt being below sea-level in a >high-risk area for a repeat event.) > >Can we quibble about the fact that Mr. Gore is not Mother Teresa, and >there is more Gore in the movie than some would like? Of course. >However, if it was just another dry documentary without some celebrity >sizzle, would as many people have gone to see it? I seriously doubt it. > The movie was a success in raising the message. It may even be a >success financially (which is another important message - the >environment can be economically successful, even if this is a tangential >case). Let's not let perfect be the enemy of good. Is it enough? Of >course not, but why should we expect Gore to be doing this alone? > >If you can do better, then do so. Until then, let's support the few >environment heroes we have. If we need to criticize, let's pick the >worthy targets (e.g., the Bush administration environmental record, >Exxon-Mobil and the rest of the usual suspects). So long as the >environment supporters keep bickering amongst ourselves, the environment >destroyers will keep on with business as usual. > >Darryl McMahon > >Zeke Yewdall wrote: > > > > > > On 3/4/07, *Keith Addison* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > Hello Wendell > > > > <snip> > > > > > By the way, I seem to recall that termites are the source > > >of 20 percent of the world's methane. I am no entomologist --is > > >there any known benefit to man or beast from termites? > > >If not, let's get 'em! > > > > > > > > I think alot better arguement could be made that there is no known > > benefit to the planet from Humans, and we should go get 'em. Oh, > > except that you can't ask a human this question because they are not a > > neutral observer. > > > > Right, let's kill them all! Termite-caused global warming has to be > > stopped in its tracks. There can't be anything important about > > termites anyway, I mean they only produce 20% of the world's methane > > after all, and only about two-thirds of the world's dead plants go > > through termites in the organic matter cycle, obviously they're > > totally useless to man and beast. Anyway, if we can wipe them out >and > > lose that methane maybe we can go right on guzzle-guzzle-guzzling >for > > a few days or weeks longer before we hit Cold Turkey time on the > > fossil fuels. What do you think we should use, DDT or malathion? > > > > What about the methane from wild ruminants, you forgot about them - > > there are millions and millions of antelope and wildebees in the > > Serengeti for instance, if we don't go right in there and kill them > > they'll just go right on farting. > > > > Same applies to all these useless creatures, if they can't live > > without being so irresponsible then they just have to go. > > > > Nature knows best, and if Nature was capable of making these > > decisions for herself she wouldn't have given us brains to do it for > > her, right? > > > > Best > > > > Keith > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Biofuel mailing list > > Biofuel@sustainablelists.org > > >http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > > > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > > > Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 >messages): > > http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > > >-- >Darryl McMahon >It's your planet. If you won't look after it, who will? > >The Emperor's New Hydrogen Economy (now in print and eBook) >http://www.econogics.com/TENHE/ > >_______________________________________________ >Biofuel mailing list >Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 >messages): >http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > _________________________________________________________________ Buy what you want when you want it on Sympatico / MSN Shopping http://shopping.sympatico.msn.ca/content/shp/?ctId=2,ptnrid=176,ptnrdata=081805 _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
