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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (53660)	9/25/2004 1:59:56 AM
From: Henry Niman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

>>The next big thing to happen [after chicken FLU epidemics] << The latest from Thailand suggests human human transmission of avian flu recombinomics.com Could be sooner rather than later.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (53660)	9/25/2004 4:16:36 AM
From: Henry Niman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

WHO has now acknowledged possibility of human human transmission of H5N1 recombinomics.com Mother had travel from Bangkok to hospital without any documented contact with sick birds (she died 1-2 weeks after carrying ffor her daughter in the hospital).

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (53660)	9/26/2004 1:11:14 AM
From: Taikun	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 74559

Hi Maurice, You've given me a lot of great ideas. My comments on the finite resources the world faces generated your replies about what we 'can' do. I agree that if we put our minds to it, we can probably achieve almost anything. But we do not, and whatever it is (lack of political will/courage, domination by special interest groups, greed) the current system misallocates the world's resources. While Japanese car makers produce Priuses, US car makers design bigger and less efficient SUV's that extract more and more money from consumers, and require military spending to bully oil from other countries since the US doesn't have enough, This is one country and one reosurce and the misallocation of resources through bad management has and will continue to squander that resource. I have no hope that the world can replace the Atlantic conveyor belt or the Platipus, despite how much you may think a world without poles would be better for shipping and by removing tigers it somehow makes people safer. I am terrified anough by the disease that chickens have. Perhaps we should be more afraid of chickens than tigers. Until humans show true expertise at creating synthetic oil (actions speak louder than words), or producing medicine without looking to the animal or plant world, we are inept at taking care of ourselves without our plant and its environment. Photovoltaics on the sahara and whatnot will not happen in my lifetime. We have not and will not allocate resources to do that. The average consumer is more focused on how many pixels that plasma tv has and what the monthly payments are than whether driving a Prius or not could have enough of an impact on the planet to make it inhabitable for their offspring. If you go to Italy, you can walk in a church where the tile floor has rare exquisite tile that came from pillars around the Coliseum, but were stolen by the new regime. The builders of the Coliseum stole the marble from the previous regime and bult pillars around the Coliseum. Two thousand years pass: there is no more marble, it is finite, and we cannot manufacture it in a lab, let alone a factory. Digging for gold, diamond-as you say-is further proof of our misallocation of time, energy, expertise and capital. Life is about choices, and if you make too many bad ones it turns out in failure. Humans individually/collectively are not making the right decisions to ensure the long-term supply of natural resources. What we 'can' do is irrelevant if we make the wrong decisions. Our resources are finite and we don't have easy replacements for them. Not worrying doesn't help seek a solution. Do you drive your car without insurance because ('no worries mate') the doctors can sew me up and with a few prosthetics have me going again even in a nasty accident?