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

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (9658)	2/20/2007 9:50:38 PM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

The idea of acting on the conjecture of Global Warming Religious fanatics most dire story lines reminds me of a children's book. It was about a Fox that tried to trick a chicken into making an easy meal of itself for the fox. Everyone ran around yelling "the sky's a falling." In the end nobody cared. No, actually, there's a much better analogy. You see, there's a real story of a country that, acting on a bunch of fairy tales about yellow cake and happy people tossing flowers, decided to spend billions bombing the crap out of another country, and got itself into a big mess that it couldn't get out of. However, on second thought, the Global Warming story isn't a good comparison because it won't end up in such a big mess. The worst that might happen is people might end up driving cars with better fuel efficiency... the air in cities might end up being a lot cleaner and healthier... and the world might find somewhere else to get its energy rather than being held hostage by a handful of troublemakers. See, the two stories aren't really anything the same, are they? One has a crappy ending, and the other will probably turn out rather well.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (9658)	2/20/2007 9:57:44 PM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

I understand the need for big government lovers to create fear to scare people into clamoring for more government intervention. Dealing with the unwitting participants of the deception is hard enough, what I worry about is the leaders of the deception. As soon as this hoax is discredited, they move onto the next one. Oh yeah.. and this part... HA HA HA HA HA!!! You've got to be kidding? Could your government be doing anything more to try to scare the crap out of you than it has been for the past 5 or so years? Taking people's toothpaste away at airports. Color-coded alert levels. Anthrax scares. Bird flu scares Puhleeze.... get real.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (9658)	2/21/2007 1:27:11 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 36917

Puck is on da ice. Let's get ready to rumble. Team Canada is playing, too. Sorry about your stick, but, well, you know.