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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (2359)	10/13/2000 4:14:39 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

His position is that business can actually profit from cleaning up their act and the environment. New cleaner technologies. That just goes to show that Gore has never ran a business... Sure SOME businesses will profit... just like those businesses who provide smog reduction scrubbers and catalytic converters.... But for someone to profit, someone has to pay the cost... The REAL QUESTION is to what extent, and how rapidly, we inflict those costs upon polluters. And that's the crux of the entire argument... sure everyone wants a clean environment (except an environmental remediator who needs the job security)... But at what cost, and in what time frame?? Then there is the fairness aspect... Like the Kyoto treaty that placed the greatest burden on those nations who have already have the best environmental records rather than the newly industrializing economies in China and Asia. Increased fire risk can be attributed to global warming. Hmmm.. global temperature rises, more drought... more fires... But wait.. if there is a drought, then how can their be fire without lightning? (contrary to popular belief, more forest fires are started by lightening, not humans). Maybe we should pump EVEN MORE PARTICULATES into the air in order to reduce the amount of sunlight that penetrates, as well as providing that added bonus of creating precipitation of water (raindrops). That's the ticket... more particulates and dust in the air... Such is the way of voodoo environmentalism, eh?