Adressing Global Warming

[Doug Pensinger]

Wayne wrote:

>
> Seems to me, he is just pointing out the irony in the fact that the Green
> Movement is a product of affluence which is a product of technology.  And
> more specifically that the Green movement is antipathetic to the
> technology
> that has given them the time and resources  to become environmentally
> aware.
>
> Am I right?
>
> But that's a false dichotomy.  We've become environmentally aware because
> the technology is what fouls the environment.  The first time I flew into LA
> in 1970 there was a thick, foul, yellow-brown haze that enveloped the city.
> Did they figure out that millions of cars spewing lead tainted toxins was at
> the root of the problem because they had "the time and the resources"?
>


> Are we then saying saying that dark complected people that don't speak
> English very well are too stupid to understand why the food tastes funny and
> makes you sick when you shit in the river upstream of where you draw your
> cook-water?
>

 Doug
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