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- From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)
- Newsgroups: talk.environment
- Subject: Re: NEWS: DOE Plans to Build New Savannah River Reprocessing Facility
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.180125.28870@ke4zv.uucp>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 18:01:25 GMT
- References: <Greenpeace.19Jul1992.9pm1@naughty-peahen.org> <1992Jul25.073315.10830@ke4zv.uucp> <1992Jul27.171004.2605@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
- Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
- Organization: Gannett Technologies Group
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- In article <1992Jul27.171004.2605@beaver.cs.washington.edu> pauld@cs.washington.edu (Paul Barton-Davis) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul25.073315.10830@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman) writes:
- >>No one can predict the political state of the world in 2018.
- >
- >But it might be nice if we tried to plan it and assert our
- >capabilities as rational objects instead of just engines of creation
- >driven by circumstance. Throughout history, plenty of people have
- >sought to predict 20 years into the future, and in so doing have
- >shaped the lives of the contemporaries and children, both for better
- >and for worse. Is Mr. Coffman advocating that we just throw out
- >political hands up in the air, and get on with tinkering with the
- >technology ?
-
- What I said was that we would be foolish in the extreme to discard
- a *proven* deterrent to world war when the political winds may make
- it's spectre return by 2018 (or earlier). Plenty of people have
- tried to predict political futures six months in advance. Plenty
- of people have had rude awakenings when their prognostications
- proved wrong. Ask Gorby or H. Ross Perot.
-
- Gary
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