Re: OT: interesting global warming quote found elsewhwere

mpm <mpmillard@xxxxxxx> wrote in
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On Jul 24, 2:08�pm, Kris Krieger <m...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelati...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
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Kris Krieger wrote:

As for Al Gore, love him, hate him, whatever, neither
changes the fact that pollution is harming both humans, and other
living things,

The fact of the matter is that general air pollution now is lower
than it had been for decades on end.

Graham

True, except for some places such as LA. �Lower is better but sti
ll not teh
ideal, not the goal. � �

Also, the point of it being lower in variosu areas is not that we can
go ahead and give up on any and all controls now, and just go back to
indiscriminately crapping everything up.

What you're implying is like a parent saying, OK, Billy got A's and
B's in
the first semester of Fifth Grade, so it's OK for him to totalyl
flunk out
the whole second half of the year.

Doing things only half-way means doing them half-assed. I
specifically
addressed the issue of human health, focusing upon children's health
(since
they're more vulnerable to the effects of pollutants). If
something like
heavy metals and lead in the water supply is doen half-assed, that is
tantamount to saying that it's fine and dandy if children "only" get
"a little" bit of brain and organ damage from drinking tapwater.
Saying "it's
better than it was", and leaving it at that, implies that "only half
the damage done" is acceptable.

Wow!
All I can say is, a quick review of the Princeton Review's Podcast
series:
LSAT Logic in Everyday Life
...would be very helpful here.


Er, you lost me there...<?> Not sure that it's related. I just "calls
'em as I sees 'em", and what I see is petty egocentric unconstructive
verbal gamesmanship that amounts to little more than a lot of people who
bicker just because they love to bicker.

I've seen what has to be megabytes of bandwidth devoted to what is, in
essence, nothing more than useless bickerfesting that misses, or often
seems to intentionally ignore, the core fact thats, even if one doesn't
give a horse's patoot about other creatures and doesn't comprehend squat
about the importance of biodiversity, pollution does have a deleterious
effect upon human health (including brain function), and a crapped-up
environment has a deleterious effect on the overall quality of life for
humans in general.

What I see is people who
(1) pick out specific little phrases or segments of phrases, and launch
into the nastiest forms of hair-splitting over something that is only
part of the overall equation;
(2) condemn *all* alternative energy across the board becasue this or
that single specific potential energy source is (like oil!!) insufficient
to *immediately* meet *all* of the US's energy needs;
and/or
(3) label *anyone* and *everyone* who has *any* concerns over issues of
energy and/or the environemnt a POS moron *merely* because this or that
dingbat celebrity <!> says one thing about it while doing another.

And this sort of muddleheaded ego-obsessed nonsense is what passes for
"discussion" in the US today...

If people brought to medicine the same sort of naysaying negativistic
hair-splitting bickerfesting that is brought to energy and the
environment, we wouldn't *have* to worry about either because the
mortality rates from injuries, diseases, and natural disasters would keep
the human population pared way down, enough for the planet to clean up
after most of our messes, just as it's cleaned up to some degre each time
this or that empire grew too big for its britches, and collapsed back
down into tiny bands of hunter-gatherers.




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