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- From: mike@execu.execu.com (Mike McCants)
- Newsgroups: talk.environment
- Subject: Re: "Keep Your Pollution!" (Article)
- Message-ID: <3595@execu.execu.com>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 19:40:25 GMT
- References: <9207280232.AA12737@poly.math.cornell.edu>
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- In article <9207280232.AA12737@poly.math.cornell.edu> harelb@MATH.CORNELL.EDU (Harel Barzilai) writes:
- >[...From misc.activism.progressive...]
- >
- > Keep Your Pollution! Says One Expert
- > by Maneka Gandhi
- >
- >Maneka Gandhi is India's former minister for the environment and
- >forests.
- >******************************************************************
- >
- > Keep Your Pollution! Says One Expert
- > by Maneka Gandhi
- >
- > Practically all environmental degradation in the East is due to
- >overconsumption in the West.
-
- I can tell already I'm not going to like this "expert's" opinion.
-
- [Much ranting and raving deleted]
-
- > The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) should be
- >strengthened and given sanction-making powers.
-
- Wow, what a neat proposal. Let's have a UN body that is responsible
- to no electorate (but to the "votes" of the "East"?) make our
- economic and political decisions. Not much point in having a
- presidential election, is there?
-
- India doesn't have a population problem, does it?
-
- Population doesn't have much relation to "70% of our water is poluted",
- does it?
-
- Talk is cheap. I sure hope there's not any action behind this talk.
-