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- From: gil@Gilsys.DIALix.oz.au (Gil Hardwick)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Historic levels of methane by bison (was Re: Perot ad
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- References: <1992Nov4.124648.26720@news.acns.nwu.edu>
- Date: Sat, 07 Nov 92 06:14:18 GMT
- Organization: STAFF STRATEGIES - Anthropologists & Training Agents
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- In article <1992Nov4.124648.26720@news.acns.nwu.edu> len@schur.math.nwu.edu writes:
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- > limiting emissions in the first place. Of course, presumably one
- > nation or a small group of nations could decide to act unilaterally,
- > but that I think would eventually lead to chaos. In fact, the only
- > way I could see international agreement to try to `correct' things
- > like methane concentrations is if there had already been serious
- > agreement to limit greenhouse emissions as much as possible, and
- > that had failed. If so, the political mechanisms for the human race
- > to act on a global scale would at least be in place.
-
- Len, there already is chaos.
-
- Nobody trusts anyone else sufficiently to hand the responsibility of
- making global environmental decisions over to someone else. Again taking
- the risk of being accused of "amerika bashing", as merely one example
- (without going on and on about your involvement in Africa or South
- America, or the Middle East) having witnessed your military having so
- enthusiastically bombed and defoliated Vietnam while it took such a
- massive radical political effort at home to stop them from doing it,
- does not lead the world to believe that you are at all capable of any
- sort of fruitful negotiation on environmental issues.
-
- Neither does anything I read here on sci.environment lead me to trust
- you or believe anything you have to say on the matter. None of you
- have even begun to demonstrate any consideration of other people even
- as human beings, much less partners in a global management strategy of
- the environment.
-
- Perhaps you are not even aware that your arguments are very probably
- being monitored by perhaps all of the 72 countries now on the Internet,
- and so have no idea how egregiously insulting some it is to people of
- other nationalities. Unless you are prepared to voluntarily reign in
- some of the idiots you have given access to this forum, I doubt that
- anyone will accept your overtures as being in good faith.
-
- Most countries simply do not care any more about what chaos the US
- fears, or what strategies you might want to put in place to keep your
- precious "political mechanisms for the human race to act on a global
- scale". You have managed to destroy any credibility you might have had
- as an environmentally responsible world power all by yourselves, and
- there is no point grating against what awful things poverty stricken
- villagers might be doing in their struggle just to survive.
-
- For them, and for a lot of your own people for that matter, life's a
- bitch and then you die.
-
- Most of us just want go it alone on our own patch, thank you very much,
- where we only have to argue against our own local opposition instead of
- the entire US military/industrial complex.
-
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