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Paula - Congratulations, you have made it to my "Fuckwits" (kudos to Louis for the folder name) email filter - and with hardly any effort on your part! (PS. I like the way you think because I have similar thoughts - for example I occasionally piss in the Kokosing (a small river / large stream in central Ohio) and find myself later reading about floods in Mississippi delta. Should I worry? Absolutely not, because that doesn't begin to explain the jobless rate here at all!) Keep the faith! - Bill Paula wrote: > ====================================================================== Rule > #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ====================================================================== > > > Louis wrote: "The president of Bolivia has called attention to the > possibility that the melting of Andean glaciers will rob his people of > drinking water. It does not get more disastrous than that." > > Really? So the *possibility* of glaciers melting away in the future is more > disastrous than the *certainty* of widespread poverty and exploitation in > Bolivia today? A very convenient argument for the president of Bolivia, I'm > sure. But if he's really worried he should ask glacier-free Australians how > they get their drinking water. After all, the Bolivian glaciers could melt > away for entirely natural causes, just as glaciers have been doing for > thousands of years. Then what would 'his' people drink? > > Mark wrote: "But if they say something about it, it's rejected as merely > anecdotal". > > Anecdotal evidence can back up just about any case. It should not be > rejected, only accepted for what it is - no more than anecdotal evidence. > > Paula ________________________________________________ Send list submissions > to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: > http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/wquimby%40embarqmail.com > ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
