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- From: bane@vtx.ma.man.ac.uk (Michael!)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Re: Save the Planet and the Economy at the Same time!
- Message-ID: <7173@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 14:05:33 GMT
- References: <7313@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu> <1993Jan11.165005.17195@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan11.165005.17195@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>, constant@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Tino) writes:
- |> In article <7313@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu> 6500axel@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu writes:
- |> >We should take the case of smoking as a guiding example. Nowadays,
- |> >people hardly dare to mention in public that they are smokers: smoking
- |> >is 'out'. Would be great, if in a few years also car driving were
- |> >'out', wouldn't it? Only those silly enough to always carry 1000 kg
- |> >along with them would still use cars.
- |>
- |> Please compare the benefits/risks associated with smoking and driving cars.
- |> This is what a scientific minded person would do. I'm going to keep my car.
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- |> Tino
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- Maybe the reason people are so antismoking is because they [now] realise what
- it does to them as an individual whereas many people (such as tino) are happy
- to drive cos they do not feel the direct consequences themselves.... and I
- think that "scientific minded" people *WOULD* give up their cars (unless absolutely
- necessary to use them for absolutely necessary journeys)
-
- Michael
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