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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Joe NYC who wrote (122613)8/21/2000 3:51:51 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1571398
 
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I am not presumptuous to claim to know what's best for the Earth, but to be cautious in my opinion is to let the nature do it's own thing.

Joe,

Nature does know best and it would be great to let it "do its own thing". However nature has to contend with the significant intrusion of human civilization.

It does not appear that this planet and its ecology has had to cope previously with a civilization as large and significant and as intrusive as man's. Therefore we do not know what the impact is....there is not enough long term data; so we must rely on relatively current data...the last 100 years.

Its this current data which indicates that human civilization is having an impact on the ecological system. However we can not be sure how serious that impact is. Your argument sounds very reasonable and implies that there is a inappropriate hsyteria to the fears of global warming....and maybe you are right. Maybe the loss of certain species and plant fila is not that important, that ozone holes can be problematical but resolvable etc.

However I look at it from the prospective that this is the only home we have. Why take the chance and do nothing, or worse, do a lot of analysis and study. Why not curb our excesses so that we don't have repeats of the Willamette River or Cuyahoga, or the Amazon rain forests.

Its seems to make very practical and smart sense to me.

ted
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