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To: Ilaine who wrote (395)	12/10/2001 10:02:55 PM
From: Don Lloyd	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 443

CB - But debunking spurious claims doesn't mean the whole thing is wrong. The dodo really did get wiped out. The buffalo almost got wiped out. Some species of whales are teetering on the brink. Tigers are endangered. So are pandas. Between 50% and 90% of all existing species have already been wiped out at least five separate times in the past, and it will happen again. A lower level of background extinctions has always been present. Our environment is getting cleaner, not dirtier, but not all by itself, it's because of tougher laws. And it is getting dirtier in some places, e.g., China, India. Correlation is not causation. Economics is what is needed to make China and India, etc., cleaner. It makes no difference whether I allow you one or a billion new laws, you cannot make a meaningfully cleaner environment by new laws without economic improvement. Regards, Don