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To: LindyBill who wrote (15431)	1/3/2002 1:19:42 PM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

It is based on the so called I=PAT Really? I suggest you read the questions and look at the answers. Typically, the folks who write and read the NS aren't quite as shallow as some other folks maybe are. Like we can actually think what the world is really like. Answer questions (a) and (b) I am sure you will feel educated. No? OK read the answer to question (g), get back to me if you are still having difficulties thinking clearly.

To: LindyBill who wrote (15431)	1/3/2002 4:26:23 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi LindyBill; Well said. Nothing is worse than (left wing) politically motivated pseudo science. It takes a genius to look at Mexico City (where the air regularly kills people), compare it to San Francisco, and then conclude that San Francisco is the cause of the world's pollution problems. The fact is that the vast majority of wood coming out of Canadian and US forests is completely sustainable, and we have barely touched the surface of improved genetic qualities in trees. I bought some 4x10s with Canadian markings on them recently and realized that they were managed forest, (rather than old growth), when I realized that the growth rings were 3/8 of an inch apart. Rather than being 100 year-old wood, these were somewhere around 20 years old or less. Beautiful wood. These guys have been promoting the concept that we're all about to die because there's too many of us and there's not enough food since Malthus wrote his original essay on population limits in 1798: ucmp.berkeley.edu You'd think that after 203 years of being wrong these guys, (who when you get a few beers down them turn out to share the same xenophobic racial fears of Pat Buchanan) would find some other type of snake oil to sell. If the world really were so polluted that we're all about to die, then how come the world's average human lifespan keeps climbing? You'd think that our unhealthy lifestyles would be killing us off, but no, we're living longer and longer. -- Carl