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- From: sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth)
- Subject: Re: Remember ...
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:40:39 GMT
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- In article <q6icuB1w165w@mintir.new-orleans.la.us> elendil@mintir.new-orleans.la.us (Edward J. Branley) writes:
- >sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth) writes:
- >
- >> In article <kZ09TB2w165w@mintir.new-orleans.la.us> elendil@mintir.new-orleans
- >> >sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth) writes:
- >> >
- >> >> >
- >> >> Well, I've heard that VP-elect Gore has written in his book on the environ
- >> >> that cars are a bigger threat to the earth than nuclear weapons. And he's
- >> >> our new VP?? Are you ready for 4 years of Gore jokes?
- >> >>
- >> >> :-)
- >> >> Simon
- >> >
- >> >Actually, cars *are* a bigger threat than nukes. Look at the amount of CO a
- >> >other pollutants that cars spew forth in cities like Los Angeles, New York,
- >> >and Mexico City. It's a safe bet that more people have died as a result of
- >> >cars (between lung cancer and auto accidents) that have been killed by nukes
- >> >
- >> I recently saw a NOVA program about photography from space, and the polution
- >> you mention is clearly visible from 150-200 miles up (IMAX movies taken aboar
- >> shuttle flights), so I'm not disputing that. But people won't accept any
- >> alternatives to existing technology unless it can be demostrated to be clearl
- >> better (and more cost effective to operate) than the vehicles being replaced.
- >> Simon
- >
- >That may be true, but the important point for this discussion is that, by
- >making the statement that cars are dangerous, Gore is hardly the extremist that
- >the Limbots make him out to be.
- >
- Gore would be an extremist if his environmental ideas were in conflict with
- private property rights. I know there's a difference between advocating
- clean, efficient cars and saying that we shouldn't drive them. So far,
- his ideas seem sensible. The extremist minority gets all the media attention,
- so when we have a VP who is an advocate of environmental causes, images of
- the extremist elements are conjured u.
-