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Pastimes : The Boxing Ring Revived -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (5139)	3/10/2003 12:02:34 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7720

"If you suggesting greater conservation then I have no problem with that idea" Actually, I was responding to your intimation that the goal of production is unrelated to demand...that there is no end to bringing home the meat, or indulging in sex, or drawing up the water. "If you put in a lot more time in order to still cut up the same amount of meat then you have less time left over to produce or distribute other goods or services" __________________________________ "CO2 is not really toxic. You have it in your body constantly and exhale it in every breath" I am not sure what relevance the presence of CO2 in the body has to its danger to human life, or the fact of CO2 monitoring equipment? I agree that anything less than the normal level of .036 percent poses no risk to human life. "Most ways to produce items with less CO2 or with less toxins are less efficient not more" Incorrect. Fossil fuels are a wasteful and inefficient method to produce energy. They release toxic compounds into the environment and they impact on the ecology. Much of the energy is wasted and unconverted into any useful product. Generally speaking, the reduction of CO2 goes hand in hand with reducing the levels of more toxic compounds such as Sulfur Dioxide and Nitrogen Oxide. Electric power is immeasureably more efficient. My point is not to condemn industry, but to simply emphasize, that commonsense and rational self interest suggest that we all take seriously the environment on which our life and future depend. We all know what happens in an aquarium when we are thoughtless or lazy about safeguarding the environment necessary to the quality of aquatic life. We are at least as important as fish.