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To: Grainne who wrote (21958)	5/23/1998 9:19:00 AM
From: Skipper	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Christine, I haven't said that we've depleted the earth's resources or outgrown it. Whether we can stop pollution "almost completely" is a good question. I don't think we will, because of the ever present economic incentives to take shortcuts, and the pervasive mentality of being willing to borrow against the future. Think about something as simple and indispensable as paper. Trees are cut down and pollution is created in the milling process. How are you going to stop that? Quit using paper? How about producing it from hemp instead? As for Ayn Rand being "cold, bitter and depressed", that is a) someone's perception, and b) probably not the result of her philosophy but rather a response to some life experience, maybe the affair she had? And regarding romance, well that's an area of our lives where any of us can fuck-up, so to speak, and usually do. Skipper

To: Grainne who wrote (21958)	5/25/1998 1:59:00 AM
From: Father Terrence	Respond to of 108807

Christine: You really want to stop pollution? Then support magma power and an all-out drive for nuclear fusion. As for limiting growth -- can't be done without draconian measures and the loss of even the most intimate liberties. Expansion is the only answer, outwards to new lands as always (in this case it just happens to be other planets). The hole in the ozone fluctuates throughout the centuries and is mostly affected by volcanic activity. Later in the 21st Century it will become a non-issue. FT