From: cbcox-AT-rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Carrol Cox) Subject: Re: M-I: Global warming Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 19:31:19 -0600 (CST) Mark, Just one query on 3rd-world use of fossil fuel. As I understand it, large numbers of families in many 3rd-world countries use wood as their fuel for cooking, and those cooking fires are heavy polluters. I'm not sure of the total energy "equation" here. Probably gas-cooking would be less polluting--but that involves all the energy cost of building the whole vast array of what needs to go into using natural gas (beginning with the additional iron ore, etc. needed for the stoves, the pipelines, the pipeline-building machinery. I would tentatively presume that (leaving aside political and social pressures from 3rd world peoples' knowledge that the technology exists) it would still in the long run, from an environmental perspective as well as social perspective, be desirable to make that shift in technology. But I haven't even begun to think of the complexities involved. Carrol --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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