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- From: schinder@leprss.gsfc.nasa.gov (Paul J. Schinder)
- Newsgroups: talk.environment
- Subject: Re: Gore Calls for a Real Environmental President
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- Date: 12 Aug 92 19:25:03 GMT
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- In <1992Aug12.002637.4864@cs.cornell.edu> allan@cs.cornell.edu (James Allan) writes:
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- >The "choices that individuals make" are a reflection of their
- >attitudes, and Gore's claim is that the attitudes need to change.
- >That, in fact, is why Gore claims that government canNOT solve the
- >problem (contrary to the writer's claim in the last paragraph).
- >Changing an attitude requires developing new frameworks of
- >interpretation. Gore's argument about what needs to change when an
- >attitude is being changed is "quite complex" making is possibly
- >difficult to follow.
-
- I also have not yet read the book, only leafed through a "remove this
- on pain of death :-)" copy in the Goddard library. But does Gore
- anywhere in the book (or anywhere else) say what type of car(s) he
- drives and how many miles per year or how he heats his houses? It's
- always much easier for me to listen to preaching about how other
- people should change their lifestyles if the person doing the
- preaching has already changed his in the ways he recommends. Gore
- himself, in the book, recognized the hypocracy of driving a car with
- A/C to a meeting where he was going to deplore the effects of CFC's.
-
- >(Of course, now I'm kind of obligating myself to read the damn thing.
- >Ah well. I'll probably end up agreeing with JHartley; that'd be
- >amusing.)
-
- I'm a little suprised that the book hasn't been rushed into paperback,
- considering that Gore is now a VP candidate.
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- Paul J. Schinder
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- schinder@leprss.gsfc.nasa.gov
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