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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (9784)	2/19/2012 12:59:04 PM
From: TimF	2 Recommendations Respond to of 85487

There incentives are a bit different but not nearly as much as you think. Environmental groups make more money by promoting the scariest possible interpretations of things, or even inventing scares. They also get more power and gratification by pushing their agenda whether or not its a good thing in a particular situation. And they don't want "a better world", so much as they want a world that fits their vision, whether or not it is a net benefit. And not just their vision, if some particular idea for possible environmental benefit turns out not only to be extremely expensive, but actually illusionary, they have no particular interest in dropping their campaign for it. As for wanting a profit sure, but wanting profits is the motive that has produced the most net benefit in history. Sure it doesn't always work that way, exceptions aren't even rare, but it overall its a massively positive motive.