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- From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
- Subject: Re: Please help stop offshore oil
- In-Reply-To: dean@vexcel.com's message of Tue, 21 Jul 1992 15:57:42 GMT
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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- Date: 21 Jul 92 12:47:38
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- In article <1992Jul21.155742.14870@vexcel.com> dean@vexcel.com (dean alaska) writes:
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- In article <JMC.92Jul10110853@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
- >In article <1992Jul10.161020.29932@csi.jpl.nasa.gov> mark@csi.jpl.nasa.gov (Mark Webster) writes:
- >
- >OK. Let everyone remember that the Sierra Club and other environmental
- >organizations make proposals with no thought of their possible harmful
- >effects and are not to be trusted in comparison with oil companies,
- >which are obliged to come up with assessments of the possible harmful
- >effects of their proposals.
- >--
- >John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
- >*
- >He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
- >
-
- It seems to me that the primary responsibility for studying impacts is
- with whoever is requesting a change in the status quo. In this case,
- it would be those who propose drilling.
- If environmentalists suggest some cleanup procedure for
- some long-standing pollution problem, then they would be obliged to
- study the impacts of the cleanup.
- --
-
- dingo in boulder (dean@vexcel.com)
-
- Well ok, but I would consider abandoning any long standing practice,
- i.e. a way of making a living, as something calling for impact
- studies.
- --
- John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
- *
- He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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