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

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (31887)	1/30/2011 11:48:53 AM
From: average joe	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

"An Asian peasant who labors through all of his waking hours, with tools created in Biblical times—a South American aborigine who is devoured by piranha in a jungle stream—an African who is bitten by the tsetse fly—an Arab whose teeth are green with decay in his mouth—these do live with their “natural environment,” but are scarcely able to appreciate its beauty. Try to tell a Chinese mother, whose child is dying of cholera: “Should one do everything one can? Of course not.” Try to tell a Russian housewife, who trudges miles on foot in sub-zero weather in order to spend hours standing in line at a state store dispensing food rations, that America is defiled by shopping centers, expressways and family cars." Ayn Rand

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (31887)	1/30/2011 3:24:19 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

That's nice for those ladies to go on taxpayer funded self-important jamborees at Davos to pontificate about how other people should do what they tell them to do while men stay back at base and do actual work. <In a panel discussion at Davos, where some 2,500 business leaders and politicans are gathered, U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres said China "is going to leave us all in the dust" in the transition toward a more energy-efficient global economy. The Chinese, she said, "are not doing it just because they want to save the planet. They are doing it because it's good for the economy." European Union Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard said it's time that American businesses realize that "it's bad business to not be among the front-runners" in that race > Christiana and Connie would say that wouldn't they, being overpaid to be Climate Doomsters. Is there any snow at Davos right now? Mqurice