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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JohnM who wrote (25215)	4/14/2002 11:36:56 PM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

JohnM, I’m sorry if I pressed the wrong button… the truth is, I don’t understand your objection to calling this writer a ‘shmuck’. Is it the language? Is that the problem? Let me know; I’ll manage to express myself using more conventional verbiage. If it is not that, then what? If it looks like a cow, it writes like a cow… perhaps maybe it is. Is it the non-application of the “Scientific Method” that you found objectionable? Well, application of that method while expressing political impressions and opinions is… a whooole different subject. I have some thoughts about it, but it will need to wait.

To: JohnM who wrote (25215)	4/14/2002 11:49:32 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

I have just read an article discussing the controversy over Bjørn Lomborg's controversial new book, "The Skeptical Environmentalist." This is the best article I have read on the present state of the "Environmental" movement. If you interested in this issue, and it sure does have major "Foreign Affairs" implications, I would strongly recommend you read it. I will post only the part that Lomberg calls in his book, "The Litany". "We are all familiar with the Litany," he writes: "The environment is in poor shape here on earth. Our resources are running out. The population is ever growing, leaving less and less to eat. The air and water are becoming ever more polluted. The planet's species are becoming extinct in vast numbers -- we kill off more than 40,000 each year. The forests are disappearing, fish stocks are collapsing, and the coral reefs are dying. "We are defiling our Earth...and will end up killing ourselves in the process. The world's eco-system is breaking down. We are fast approaching the absolute limit of viability, and the limits of growth are becoming apparent. "We know the Litany," he adds, "and have heard it so often that yet another repetition is, well, almost reassuring." Please read the article. reason.com