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

To: pezz who wrote (783)	4/10/1999 3:40:00 AM
From: somethingwicked	Respond to of 36917

Let's get some hard facts with documentation re: US census (last census was at least 10 years ago) and then we'll both go beyond he said/no he said stage of discussion. RE: pollution, we use a disproportionate amount of natural resources, and do pollute. But 3rd world countries do not have air and water quality regs like we have. For example, India, where people burn wood and fuel oil as well as use rivers and streams for untreated human waste are more massive polluters than US. US is also biggest import nation. Those goods we import are made from raw materials in other countries,i.e. agricultural and industrial waste exists in massive doses. My trip the Czech Repub was an eye-opener and then a quick eye-closer because of the air pollution with few state standards, if any, set for heavy industries. "The vast bulk of the pollution in rural areas does not come from the use of the locals but their production for large populations else where." This goes w/out saying. What's your point. The pollution exists and products are used by locals as well as urban dwellers. Of course the majority of the products go where the greater population exists. Remember, capitalism exists for the sake of opportunity to make money. Fighting the system is a fight against large money interests. Our best defense comprises our individual efforts to not pollute and to support political alternatives to business as usual (money at any cost to environment). My personal opinion is that this is a struggle that we can influence but the outlook doesn't look good for the long-term. Short-term outlooks prevail in the business and political worlds.