----- Original Message ----- From: "jon louis mann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <brin-l@mccmedia.com> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 4:08 PM Subject: Flatulence
>> Does "bushco sycophants" sound like wording which considers all >> viewpoints? >> -- Ronn! :) > > i guess not, when you put it that way, One of the hard learned lessons learned by longtime listmembers here is that it does more harm than good to use any kind of language that is politically inflammatory. One has to consider that there are people here who <GASP> actually voted for Bush in one or more elections and feel like they had good reason to do so. One thing that one could do that would certainly rile our list conservatives and some of our centrists is to state an opinion in such a way as to make it appear that you assume everyone here is in total agreement with your own political views. In an earlier post today you said: " i don't know anything about the regulars here, but i assume most are admirers of the brin perspective " Let me assure you that such is not the case. We all like Dr Dave and are fans of his fiction (and to a lesser degree his non-fiction), but we have known the good Doctor in both the best and worst of times. We have seen his strengths and his flaws. We have enough common history that he is more or less one of the listmembers albeit the primary member in many ways. Even though he is not part of the daily life of the list, he is the reason most of us came here in the first place. >but i am interested in your > viewpoint, and i have made an effort to understand why bush and > company > are so adament in their denial that humans play a significant role > in > causing global warming. the only rational i can come up with is > that > they don't believe humans have a signicant impact on the ecology, > and > that to implement drastic interventions to slow down the progress > would > be too destructive to the economy. i believe that this is starting > to > change, partly due to al gore's efforts, and partly because there is > a > profit to be made in alternative sources of energy. > It seems to me that Bush and Co are a business oriented group and strongly wish to *not* believe Global Warming has a human caused component. For them, this would be the cause af a dismal future for commerce and for our nation and the world. There are a lot of people out there who basically believe the world to be more or less static and/or cannot comprehend much less believe in the chain of logic/causality that is required for a belief in human caused global warming. If there is anything to be argued about, it is that some are trying to turn a scientific debate into a political debate as if human caused global warming could be voted away or voted into existence. xponent A Speck I Am Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
