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To: Lane3 who wrote (59597)	4/16/2008 3:05:07 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 543020

>>If you want to get the job done in eight years, you're going to have to throw the kitchen sink at it.<< Karen - That's indicative of an all or nothing attitude. Why is the discussion only about either doing what the most extreme proponents of action are calling for or doing nothing? There are other choices. A sensible middle course seems prudent. - Allen

To: Lane3 who wrote (59597)	4/16/2008 3:46:04 PM
From: Steve Lokness	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543020

Lane3; but I would disagree that the size and scope of the problem is settled and that's a big hangup So lets sit around the table for a few decades and argue the scope of the problem? is that the zealots insist that we have to act massively and now Does that mean like Gore? If the science is half right that most are agreeing on - these people aren't zealots they are realist. Look, there are extremist on each end of any debate, but to call one side zealots because he brings the issue to the table does absolutely nothing constructive. You just can't take a bunch of little steps that will eventually add up to a big solution Of course you can. What the heck you going to do, go turn down the thermostat on the sun? It will obviously HAVE to be a bunch of little steps that will make the solution possible. You seem to think that any part of the solution is completely negative. Well it's NOT. The solution will provide for less air pollution - not a bad thing as asthma and allergies continue to spike. Any solution will make us less dependant on ME oil, also not a bad thing unless you like endless wars in the sand. And any solution will bring a bunch of jobs to the smart ones who get there first. These are bad things? steve