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To: Rolla Coasta who wrote (32461)	4/7/2008 5:03:33 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218173

Rolla, you are quarter of a century late. The ozone hole was a "big" worry in the 1980s. Since then, the problem has been solved. <You say ozone depletion is no problem, it is a big porblem ! > In the early 1960s I was an environmentalist, and through the 1970s and then in the 1980s I was paid to be one, then in the 1990s I was one and am still one. Now, it's all the fashion to be one, like wearing a fashionable hat. But nearly all people who are "environmentalists" are actually quite clueless about the mechanisms involved in pollution and environmental matters. Science leaves most people bewildered by the time they are 14, and they don't gain ground later. They learn a few catch phrases, cliches and dogma and call themselves environmentalists. Acid rain was a big deal in the early 1980s too. But no longer. Lead in petrol was a problem too and indeed it was; a greatly misunderestimated problem which bordered on criminal negligence. In fact, I think there is a valid class action suit or two which could be taken against certain lead sellers/proponents. Now it's CO2 emissions which are all the rage. While the rising CO2 levels are of interest, they don't rise to the level of "Omigod, we have GOT to do something drastic about this, such as starving the poor so we can instead burn the food supplies in our SUVs and 747s. Let them eat coal". The problem, if it is one, and not a good thing [which I suspect it is], will probably solve itself. Mqurice