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


To: longnshort who wrote (7735)10/20/2006 11:19:04 PM
From: maceng2  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 36918
 
It was a much cheaper then having a civil war over it.



To: longnshort who wrote (7735)10/21/2006 2:50:11 AM
From: average joe  Respond to of 36918
 
Top 10 Environmental Myths

Myth 1: Forests are in rapid decline.

Myth 2: Air quality is getting worse.

Myth 3: The Kyoto Protocol will successfully reduce levels of CO2 in the atmosphere.

Myth 4: All environmentalists are motivated by altruistic concern for the planet.

Myth 5: Environmentalists are all penniless college students, backed by overwhelming scientific opinion.

Myth 6: All environmentalists are peace loving and engage in traditional forms of civil disobedience.

Myth 7: Businesses are not hurt by onerous environmental regulations.

Myth 8: Oil can easily be replaced by renewable energy.

Myth 9: Genetically modified (GM) crops are ”bad.”

Myth 10: We are running out of freshwater.

uschamber.com



To: longnshort who wrote (7735)10/21/2006 5:33:32 PM
From: average joe  Respond to of 36918
 
The fact is the Brits ran out of a market for their product and always did their dirty business offshore. The ever shrinking empire will soon be engulfed by the sea thanks to climate flux, i.e. what he calls global warming. Pearly Button can be King of Atlantis when that happens.