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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (31972)6/9/2002 7:42:45 PM
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The bloviating doomster Luddites have always been fearful of new stuff. Sure, cars squash people, aircraft fall out of the sky

Traffic and airplane accidents are in considerably different risk categories: 40,000 people die on the road (that's nearly one Vietnam war per year), 200 in commercial airplanes in the USA per year. Car security requires serious improvements.

Accidental Deaths - United States 1994-1998
hazmat.dot.gov

Now that I'm writing to you: I'm neutral about global warming but I have wondered about a related point - what about the greed of our generation depleting resources which are difficult to substitute once they are scarce? Obviously the original Club of Rome projections were wrong, but oil and natural gas are finite and an important raw material for many products outside the fuel industry. Would you say that manufacturing synthetic carbohydrates doesn't constitute a problem for future generations?

Thanks in advance.
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