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- From: starr@genie.slhs.udel.edu (Tim Starr)
- Subject: Re: save the earth - ridiculous!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.085221.5169@genie.slhs.udel.edu>
- Organization: UDel, School of Life & Health Sciences
- References: <C0GDKx.IDu@news.iastate.edu> <JMC.93Jan6150304@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> <C0IJJy.CMv@news.iastate.edu>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 08:52:21 GMT
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- In article <C0IJJy.CMv@news.iastate.edu> sartre@iastate.edu (Michael J. Wendling (515) 294-6186) writes:
- }My original point was simply that the environment was in better shape
- }prior to the industrial revolution than it is now. This, I believe,
- }is undeniable.
-
- Believing it undeniable makes me think you lack healthy skepticism. I'd like
- to know what measures you're employing and what evidence you're relying on.
- I can think of ways in which our environment is better now than it was then.
-
- }Secondly, why is it that people think that improved standards of
- }living inherently require damage to the environment?
-
- I don't know, but I don't think this.
-
- Does anyone
- }disagree that the industrial revolution proceeded with basically no
- }concern for the environment?
-
- Yep. Moi. It all depends on what part of the environment you consider,
- and whether your consider public policy as a possible cause of environmental
- destruction.
-
- With a little more long term
- }thinking (not one of the western worlds strong points) we could
- }have advanced socially while having minimal inpact on the world.
-
- Long-term planning is done better by the West than by the East.
-
- Tim Starr - Renaissance Now! - Think Universally, Act Selfishly
- starr@genie.slhs.udel.edu
-
- "True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten
- oneself and others." - Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
-