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- From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
- Subject: Re: More Global Warming
- In-Reply-To: blagdon@engin.umich.edu's message of Wed, 22 Jul 92 11:47:39 EDT
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- References: <BrsG3D.37H@quake.sylmar.ca.us> <DmR-_H#@engin.umich.edu>
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- Date: 22 Jul 92 10:21:00
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- In article <DmR-_H#@engin.umich.edu> blagdon@engin.umich.edu (Kenneth James Clark ) writes:
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- In article <BrsG3D.37H@quake.sylmar.ca.us> brian@quake.sylmar.ca.us (Brian K. Yoder) writes:
- >What are the "full expenses" that we are suffering under today? I hear
- >a lot of claims that doomsday is around the corner, but everywhere I look
- >I see thetremendous improvements brought about through the industrial
- >revolution, and none of the "hazards" of it. Where are the dead bodies?
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- In the ground? :-)
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- Do large numbers of people have to die for you to see a problem?
- Maybe you meant to say "What exactly are the hazards?"
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- Ken
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- The answer is yes. Large numbers of people today die in ways that
- can be remedied. If you invent a hazard and get media support to
- exaggerate it, you are killing people from the known hazards to the
- extent that you succeed in diverting resources.
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- John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
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- He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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