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Gold/Mining/Energy : Gold and Silver Juniors, Mid-tiers and Producers

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To: LoneClone who wrote (40775)5/22/2007 10:20:28 PM
From: E. Charters  Read Replies (4) of 78421
 
Right on, destructo unit 213546793. I like bashing dah big trees. Commander Marcosovitch tot me howe. (In Howe sound by strange co-inkidence). Cut em down into itty bitty bits and make them into mars bars. After we are done that we empty our gas tanks into the river and laugh at all the fish wriggling their last wriggle. Then to top it off we smoke some of the local tobacco which grows wild in those parts, strangling our meagre brain cells and lungs the better to hasten our own demise in a slow and primitive form of suicide bombing. Feels good to kill.

I do agree that no manner of political interference or economic limitation, or psuedo scienterrific binoculant visionary prognosticant can elucidate or mitigate natural error. We cannot form an analogue that will allow natural courses to optimize. Some might feel that since we cannot know, we cannot but err no matter what we do, so why bother trying?

Can we better shape our world, conserve all deserving species and still compete economically in the modern world? Or are we living out a tragedy of a great commons on Gaia or whatever her name is?

Well we should try. But will hiding our head in an urban sand and shrinking from all frontiers of possible harvest of resources accomplish that task? Will a world of adversary interest maximize the give and take and allow a jury decision of optimal levels of resource management? I fear we are being hypnotized by beams while told to concentrate on motes by clever cynical industrial terrorists. I know a small moly mine will not kill a cocroach. Well nothing kills them, not even raid.. but it won't kill butterflies or frogs.. maybe..

I elect we step back and look again more scientifically again. I don't agree that we are more polluting than we were in the 18th century, just differently.

Much of the Sierra club take on pollution is hooey. Bad science. It is apparent from the law of entropy that primary industry cannot be more polluting. The consumer and his car and candy wrapper is the worst, most diverse and contaminating beast. Over time he will most surely devastate the planet. The Sierra club member in his SUV is his own worst enemy, not the nuke plant down the street. But is U the answer? Is coal a fearsome monster? Is rust a devil in hematitic clothing? Or a friend in disguise? At least we don't have to recycle Fords. They are on automatic.

Nature has been polluting herself and desertifying her land since she was first a lady. We are new at the game and possibly irrelevant. We will kill ourself off before the earth has a chance to feel the effects of our depradation. Well that is the best take on it. I too fear our power to destroy innocently.

Want to know where to find the greatest pollution in the planet? On your grocery store shelf. The purest poison and going to the most sensitive place insidiously day after day. You would be better off going to a swamp somewhere and eating slime from the bottom of a pond.

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