Mdix, To hell with global warming theory -- what about pollution?
Gore's encapsulation is merely a POV which can be sniped at, but everyone on the planet knows about pollution, cuz it's right there in their faces -- thousands and thousands of chemical-disaster-zones leeching poisons into aquifers for example -- only one of literally millions of kinds of polution. Completely undeniable -- I can take any global warming naysayer to a industrial-graveyard and point to it, and that naysayer will say, "Yuck. Clean this danger up!" If Gore is to be successful, all the pollution will have to be cleaned up -- not just the carbon of smoke stacks and tailpipes. I once was driving in the desert. Miles of straight, flat highway and not a car in sight. But I smelled diesel fumes. Finally after about 20 minutes, I saw way way ahead of me a semi belching smoke. I was astounded that my nose had seen farther than my eyes. Now, what DON'T I SMELL? Answer: everything. In the desert, one smell was easily sensed, but in every city in the world, factories are pouring out the crud and our noses are overwhelmed into a false non-smelling-ness. This is a huge problem. Has been since the start of the industrial revolution. Only Gore has found a popular theme that has grabbed the minds of the masses. So, I'm all for Gore even if sometimes he can be proven by you to be an "inconvenience." Below's an earlier post I wrote to Shemp. I talk about another car ride therein. You should read it too. Edg Shemp, Shemp, Shemp, You continue to write as if the corporate world is not dumping toxins anywhere they damned well please. Could you just do me a favor and google "pollution" and see if you can read even five minutes before you puke. You seem -- SEEM -- to believe that the industrial revolution's pollution has been insignificant -- socially, environmentally, financially, psychologically, and spiritually. Am I right about that or am I getting a completely wrong take on you? Shemp, listen to me. Once, I drove in a car for over an hour in Indonesia along a "canal." Next to that canal, for an hour's drive remember, was every manner of cardboard-shack housing imaginable, and that canal was where they got their water, washed and dumped their filth. Toddlers playing in muck, old women over tiny fires with rusted pots, and blight in all directions. The smell alone would knock you to your knees, Shemp. I don't know how many people I passed that hour, but it was in the tens or even hundreds of thousands. All living in squalor of such hideousness that the entire Indonesian government should be hung for crimes against humanity. Hung without due process, without a trial -- this village of the damned was prima facie evidence that would have any jury making up their minds and voting for the death penalty while walking to the juryroom. That, Shemp, is the true face of the industrial revolution, and it's been going on without end since it started. It's not just about airborne soot from China, it's about the human misery we're all turning a blind eye towards. Shemp, Shemp, Shemp, what don't you understand about black lung disease, sweat shops, migrant labor, apartheid, Darfur cleansings, World War II Japanese internment camps in California, fixed elections, gerrymandering, elitism, fascism, Big Brother, and the Dresden Firebombing? The fact that global warming may or may not be connected to this pollution is not the issue -- it is merely a cause célèbre, a calling to arms, a rallying flag for the Greens who see pollution and globalism and human rights as the core issues -- not saving water front properties in Florida from the ocean rising 20 feet due to, you know, all of Antarctica melting. Shemp, you seem to be on the side of the bad guys. Say it ain't so. Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 10/16/07 9:15:10 A.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > The whole House of Cards that is "An Inconvenient Truth" falls apart > > > if just 2 or 3 of the following are errors. > > > > According to whom? > > > > The judge has no scientific credentials. > > > > > > > > > > Neither does Al Gore. > > Ah, but the many thousands of scientists world-wide who are the source > of his information, do. > > > > _Messages in this topic _ > (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/151774;_ylc=X3oDMTM4amw0YXI0BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzM5MjAxOTYEZ3Jwc3BJZAMx > NzA1MDc3MDc2BG1zZ0lkAzE1MTgxMgRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawN2dHBjBHN0aW1lAzExOTI1NDQwNTEEdH > BjSWQDMTUxNzc0) (0) _Reply (via web post) _ > (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJyYXRkM2ltBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzM5MjAxOTYEZ3Jwc > 3BJZAMxNzA1MDc3MDc2BG1zZ0lkAzE1MTgxMgRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNycGx5BHN0aW1lAzExOTI1NDQ > wNTE-?act=reply&messageNum=151812) | _Start _ > (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJlN3BuMzBnBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzM5MjAxOTYEZ3 > Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDc3MDc2BHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA250cGMEc3RpbWUDMTE5MjU0NDA1MQ--) > > > > Well obviously those *thousands* weren't of much help to Al concerning those > nine points. > > > > ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com >
