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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Triffin who wrote (5427)	9/16/2005 10:56:46 AM
From: gg cox	Respond to of 36917

These are old figures here.. The Chinese Car Bomb therefore ticks onward, as each day another estimated 112,190 cars are produced [9]. Each one requires up to 55 barrels of oil equivalent to produce, and must operate on bitumin based highways, on tyres that themselves are about 40% oil by weight. Not only is this explosion of the world car fleet a serious threat to the Earth's environment, but through its oil demand impact will become a threat to international peace and stability. Message 21708521 I think the currant figure is 114,000 per day.

To: Triffin who wrote (5427)	9/16/2005 7:26:12 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 36917

Bush's Holy War on Nature tomdispatch.com <<...Perhaps the most lasting legacy of the Bush administration will be its undermining of environmental and conservation science itself. Cases of silenced government scientists and experts, censored reports, disbanded scientific advisory panels, and withheld evidence abound. (The National Resources Defense Council has listed dozens of examples on its website.) No administration has ever shown such levels of contempt for science as a means for informing and guiding policy and law...>>