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- Newsgroups: alt.politics.greens
- Path: sparky!uunet!hobbes!stewarte
- From: stewarte@sco.COM (nicest of the damned)
- Subject: Re: Outer space exploration
- Organization: Captain Napalm's Thermonuclear League of Liberty
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 22:46:30 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.224630.13523@sco.com>
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- Like a bolt from the blue, betel@camelot.bradley.edu (Robert Crawford) wrote:
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- > Wealthy societies are generally better for the environment.
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- I don't think this claim is true. Wealthy communities may be better
- for their local environment, in that they are more likely to be able
- to have some means of sewage treatment, more able to preserve open land
- for scenic and ecological purposes, etc. But all those resources consumed
- by the wealthy have to come from somewhere, and all the accompanying waste
- has to go somewhere. Of course the rich societies don't want things like
- toxic waste incinerators around, so they end up being built in poorer
- areas. So the wealthy areas' impact on the environment goes beyond its
- local impact.
-
- -- Stewart
- --
- "Well, then, you that is well now then."
- -- Timothy Bowden (tcbowden@clovis.felton.ca.us)
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