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To: LindyBill who wrote (41820)9/3/2002 8:45:48 PM
From: BDR  Respond to of 281500
 
<<The set of issues central to the SMI marchers proved the insight that poor people can't afford to and, in fact, don't worry overmuch about the state of the environment until they have enough food, adequate shelter and a job.>>

Further evidence of the gulf that exists between the Green's and the world's poor:

Lifestyles of the Poor and Obscure
An environmentalist laments the tragedy of electricity
weeklystandard.com

"there's a lot of quality to be had in poverty."