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- From: ladasky@netcom.com (John J. Ladasky II)
- Subject: Re: save the earth - ridiculous!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.034022.11476@netcom.com>
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- References: <1993Jan6.194324.13459@beaver.cs.washington.edu> <C0GDKx.IDu@news.iastate.edu> <1993Jan7.014843.1852@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 03:40:22 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan7.014843.1852@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>,
- constant@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Tino) writes:
- >In article <C0GDKx.IDu@news.iastate.edu>,
- sartre@iastate.edu (Michael J. Wendling (515) 294-6186) writes:
- >>
- >>My rally cry:
- >>
- >> I like the earth as it was before the industrial revolution.
- >>
- >
- >No, make it:
- >I like the earth as it was before the industrial revolution, when people
- >lived 20-30 years shorter and had a much lower standard of living.
- >
- >Tino
- >--
- > "Here are the young men, the weight on their shoulders..." - J.D.
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- > Purdue University School of Nuclear Engineering
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-
- Now, Tino, you and I both know that this is not the whole story.
- True, in the areas known as the First World, living standards have risen
- dramatically. However, the level of resource consumption practiced by
- the world today cannot be sustained. Furthermore, economic and political
- conditions in many Third World countries have been on the decline for
- decades. These impoverished Third Worlders have an unsettling tendency
- to shut off our petroleum supply or showing their starving faces on our
- television sets, making us spend huge amounts of our own resources getting
- them back on their feet, or shooting their toes off - whatever seems more
- appropriate. So, we First Worlders are living better, but I don't think
- that we can do so indefinitely if we don't think seriously about restruc-
- turing our society - and that's the global society, not just America.
-
- Lest you have any doubts about my preference of a First World
- socioeconomic environment to that of the Third World, please see my own
- posting in response to Mr. Wendling's rally cry.
-
- --
- == John J. Ladasky II ("ii") ========================= ladasky@netcom.COM ==
- "Great composers do not borrow - "Talking about music is like
- they steal." - John Ladasky ~ - dancing about architecture."
- (quote stolen from Stravinsky, who o o - Elvis Costello? Laurie
- stole it from a statement made by > Anderson? Frank Zappa?
- Pablo Picasso about painting, who \_/ -------------------------------
- stole it from...) "Property is theft." - Groucho
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