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To: Father Terrence who wrote (1540)	8/24/2000 12:54:49 AM
From: Richnorth	Respond to of 1615

Great and fascinating stuff!!! Thank you. Too bad Professor Oseland had not updated his report. You see, his bibliography (references) were mostly 1980s- and pre 1980- materials. Because of a number of typos, his report needs some editing. BTW, I have travelled to one of the strange spots in Oregon mentioned in the report and experienced firsthand the weird effects of the enhanced gravity. That was in the summer of 1970. While walking over that strange spot, I almost lost my balance. Water and objects going up an inclined surface have been observed in several parts of the world, including one spot in Nova Scotia, Canada. (Sorry, I just can't recall its name.) Way back in the early 70s (before fuel-injection engines became standard in autos), whenever my car (and other cars) strained hard while going upgrade in mountainous regions (e.g., in the Adirondacks and the Western Rockies, I had always thought I was driving over areas where the pull of gravity was unusually strong. Rightly or wrongly, I had often thought that such isolated areas must have dense or unusually dense materials concentrated underneath them. Apparently, beneath such strange spots, very dense and hot molten fluid project upward in a narrow finger-like channels to within 10 or 20 miles of the surface and confer the surface areas above them with anomalous and "weird" properties.

To: Father Terrence who wrote (1540)	10/20/2000 12:20:10 PM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1615

We may need a second Planet Earth (say, #2) in order to satisfy our bellies and survive. Friday October 20 10:39 AM ET Humans Pushing Planet Earth Beyond Capacity - WWF dailynews.yahoo.com By Robin Pomeroy BRUSSELS (Reuters) - If people in the developing world consumed as much as those living in the richest countries, the human race would need another two planet Earths to cope, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said on Friday. In its ``Living Planet Report 2000'' -- an assessment of the health of the world's environment -- the WWF said humans were already pushing the planet beyond its capacity. By calculating the amount of natural resources needed to provide such things as food, energy and manufactured goods, the WWF has estimated the burden -- or ``ecological footprint'' each person leaves on the environment. The alarming claim by the WWF is that, even at today's levels of economic activity, the human race is operating 30 percent above what the Earth can provide without suffering serious damage. The results of over-stretching the Earth's resources were deforestation, declining fish stocks and climate change, the WWF said. ``The only way to reverse these dangerous trends is to start considering the planet's natural resources seriously,'' Ruud Lubbers, president of WWF International told a news conference. Wildlife populations in the world's forest, freshwater and marine environments have declined by one third over the last 30 years, the WWF said in the same report. Lubbers, a former Dutch prime minister, said the WWF would use its report to push for radical political action when governments meet in The Hague next month to discuss climate change and again in 2002 for the ``Rio plus 10'' Earth Summit. In a cautionary note, Lubbers said better business practices and modern technologies could go some way to rectifying the situation, but that people in the developed world may need to reduce consumption as economies in poorer countries grew. ``I am not saying we can guarantee the level of wealth through new technologies. If we have to make a choice, let's go for a little bit more austerity and consume less,'' he said.