Re: Burn, Baby, Burn
- From: Aunt Nasty <ye_olde_muleskinner@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 14:22:19 -0400
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6538779,00.html
On 28 Mar 2007 18:35:27 GMT, Ken Brown <yeahright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
98% of all that ever lived are extinct.
Does that make you hope for the hastened
extinctions of humans and/or horses, with
increased suffering for them?
So? We get what we deserve ... I have no problem with that.
What do you feel people would 'deserve',
and why?
On 27 Mar 2007 10:00:41 -0700, tenwheels@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Mar 27, 10:45 am, Aunt Nasty <ye_olde_muleskin...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 24 Mar 2007 12:44:32 GMT, Ken Brown <yeahri...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Stop thinking we, as lowly humans, can really do ANYTHING at all, short
of a major nuclear war, to make a dent on planet earth.
No one was describing denting the planet.
Human populations are known for destroying their surroundings
to such an extent that there are catastrophic losses to them as
a result.
Overall the species has prospered wildly.
Overpopulation isn't the same thing as prosperity.
Catastrophic losses clearly
do not always yield catastrophe. And consider that 2/3 of the earth
remains unexplored.
Why do you believe that?
So humans will do as we've always done - either
move on, replace the resource or adapt.
Any species can become extinct.
Humans are ruining their ecosystems for their
own habitation rather rapidly.
One good volcano does more to increae global warming (ha .. what a joke
phrase) thna all our vehicles.
So if the forest fire approaches your home, you want to light the drapes?
Destroying fuel that would feed the fire isn't a bad idea.
It is if you could put out the fire first instead.
The first
Forestry Service guy (don't recall his name right now) who burned out
a patch ahead of the coming fire was thought to be nuts until the fire
swept around the group, leaving them alive. It thereafter has become
protocol.
Mary Healey's article has the specifics.
So how much of the earth do you believe you should burn so it won't burn?
Besides, China and India are going to do more to screw everything up in
the next 20 years than we have done in the past 100 .. but are they
restricted? Nooo .. let's get the rich Americans and the West to live
in the stone age and walk around so they can "catch up".
What nonsense you spout. It boils down to your claim that anything
anyone else would do that's wrong would excuse your wrongdoing.
Not exactly Ken's argument.
You seem convinced that Ken can't type for himself adequately.
He doesn't want to be environmentally wise because others are not.
There's no particular reason to enjoin
any nation from entering the 21st century, however doing so to our own
detriment is a self-defeating policy. Do you suppose China and India
would be so enthusiastic about the Kyoto Treaty if their emissions
were similarly limited? And it's a far larger problem given that
their populations dwarf that of the US.
The wastage of the US population dwarfs that of the rest of the world.
On 24 Mar 2007 12:44:32 GMT, Ken Brown <yeahright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Stop thinking we, as lowly humans, can really do ANYTHING at all, short
of a major nuclear war, to make a dent on planet earth.
No one was describing denting the planet.
Human populations are known for destroying their surroundings
to such an extent that there are catastrophic losses to them as
a result.
One good volcano does more to increae global warming (ha .. what a joke
phrase) thna all our vehicles.
So if the forest fire approaches your home, you want to light the drapes?
Besides, China and India are going to do more to screw everything up in
the next 20 years than we have done in the past 100 .. but are they
restricted? Nooo .. let's get the rich Americans and the West to live
in the stone age and walk around so they can "catch up".
What nonsense you spout. It boils down to your claim that anything
anyone else would do that's wrong would excuse your wrongdoing.
Don't fix non-problems .. spend my tax money doing something else ..
You like the way those billions are being wasted, along with a lot of oil,
on terrorizing the Iraqis?
"Of the original Herd of 100+ Horses, only 19 remain,
the rest having been killed during the bombing of Baghdad
when their Facility was struck by a Tomahawk cruise missile."
http://www.soquilicenter.org/arab.htm
You weren't threatened by any of your victims.
.
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