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To: LindyBill who wrote (227441)	11/9/2007 8:57:07 AM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 793939

I don't know. What did that tearful Eskimo woman who testified in front of Congress this week say? She had something like 15 cousins? Which is why they'll be as irrelevant to the future "stewardship of the earth" as, say, the Inuit are today.

To: LindyBill who wrote (227441)	11/9/2007 1:39:51 PM
From: Joe Btfsplk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793939

almost any old totalitarian racket becomes respectable once it's cloaked in enviro-hooey Heilbroner was one of the more influential "economists" of the century past, a socialist and proponent of top-down planning. Reality forced him to finally concede, in an '89 NYT piece, that his side had been wrong all along. But he had a fall-back position: saving the environment mandated more of what had failed. His malevolent influence lingers and is probably the inspiration for such hustlers as represented by Al Gore. reason.com