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- From: fmouse@wixer.cactus.org (Lindsay Haisley)
- Subject: Re: Registered Keys - why the need?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.224328.7052@wixer.cactus.org>
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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 22:43:28 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov8.094014.20105@genie.slhs.udel.edu> starr@genie.slhs.udel.edu (Tim Starr) writes:
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- >Just give the environmentalists enough rope. They've already started to try
- >to pull us down the slippery slope with gas taxes, emissions controls,
- >"alternative" energy policies... I can just hear them now: "No one has the
- >right to endanger the Planet by the anti-environmental act of driving their
- >own vehicle. Let them take public transportation."
-
- Hey, guy, those of us that are "environmentalists" are that way from
- necessity, not choice. Take a look at the Club of Rome study or other
- similar studies of population growth and decline and figure out for
- yourself what happens to a species that overpopulates it's environment,
- be it a puddle, a pond or a planet. They either exhaust their resources,
- die of disease, or choke to death on their own crap. Perhaps humans
- have to option to make some intelligent collective decisions regarding
- these matters, perhaps not. The problems won't go away on their own.
- Just talk to anyone who's lived in LA or Denver during summer smog
- alerts, or who lives and works in areas where groundwater is
- contaminated with ag chemicals or other polution, or folks who used to
- make their livings fishing on the Medeterranean, which is now nearly a
- dead ocean from a fisherman's point of view. Fresh air, water and the
- like are the responsibility of the people to protect, whether or not you
- like specific regulations imposed by federal, state or local
- governments. Your attitude doesn't help at all.
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