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To: michael a. rowe who wrote (2431)	4/23/1998 8:58:00 AM
From: Mike McFarland	Respond to of 5827

<Hydrocarbons are very much more rare... maybe we shouldnt just burn them up.> a little waxing philosophic... Maybe the planet is on the verge of the next great ice age, and the gradual depletion of co2 over the last billion years has sealed the planet's fate in ice. On a geological time scale, never before has so much land been located near the poles (that's bad) and with each glacial advance it becomes more likely that ice sheets simply continue to progress toward the equator. Mining hydrocarbons and injecting them back in the system might be just the thing which saves the planet. On the other hand, Earth seemed to be doing fine before we arrived on the scene. When I think about how much change five billion consumers can do to the environment I cringe. Just wait til the Chinese start building freeways and buying Explorers, it'll happen in our lifetime, then watch the weather go wild...