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To: tejek who wrote (342824)	7/11/2007 2:09:12 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576163

re: And please stop trying to equate sinning with not installing solar panels in a timely fashion. Yet he defended that preacher that went to the gay leather prostitute. Go figure.

To: tejek who wrote (342824)	7/11/2007 3:07:39 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576163

Ted, > He's not "walking the walk" on your's and the GOP's timeframe, no one elses. LOL, Gore's own time frame is "ten years" until we reach a "point of no return." Who am I to judge Gore? Just a guy who's going to be severely affected by the Nanny state Gore wants to set up ... all while he drags his feet with his own personal life. Remember how vehemently you oppose the religious right, because even though you might not attend church, you suspect they want to control your life? I personally don't subscribe to the religion of environmentalism, yet I'm going to have my life controlled by those who think they're "saving the planet." Tenchusatsu

To: tejek who wrote (342824)	7/11/2007 4:23:55 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 1576163

"The total system we call the biosphere is so complicated that we cannot know in advance the consequences of anything we do. That is why even our most enlightened past efforts have had undesirable outcomes--either because we did not understand enough, or because the ever-changing world responded to our actions in unexpected ways. From this standpoint, the history of environmental protection is as discouraging as the history of environmental pollution. … …The fact that the biosphere responds unpredictably to our actions is not an argument for inaction. It is, however, a powerful argument for caution, and for adopting a tentative attitude toward all we believe, and all we do. Unfortunately, our species has demonstrated a striking lack of caution in the past. It is hard to imagine that we will behave differently in the future. We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so. We never seem to acknowledge that we have been wrong in the past, and so might be wrong in the future. Instead, each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking by less able minds--and then confidently embarks on fresh errors of its own. We … can claim to be self-aware, yet self-delusion may be a more significant characteristic of our kind. Some time in the twenty-first century, our self-deluded recklessness will collide with our growing technological power. One area where this will occur is in the meeting point of nanotechnology, biotechnology, and computer technology. What all three have in common is the ability to release self-replicating entities into the environment…" ----------------------------------------------------- I excerpted this from the introduction to Michael Crichton's science fiction novel titled Prey.