Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 22:59:04 -0800 (PST)
From: shawn214-AT-pseud.pseud
Subject: RE: M-INTRO: Pollution



--- Tuffy-AT-pseud.pseud wrote:
> Utahman makes a good point, but I think he goes too
> far.
> 
> Pollution is a product of our lifestyle and I'm sure
> that there will always 
> be some around. Not to worry though; the task isn't
> to STOP pollution. The 
> task is to REDUCE pollution to a level that the
> environment can metabolize 
> at a reasonable and sustainable rate. It's
> responsible and reasonable.
> 
> We've been getting better and better at looking for
> efficient and clean 
> energy sources. Those older methods, i.e. coal, oil,
> wood, are all being 
> burned in cleaner and more efficient ways (exhaust
> scrubbers and newer 
> combustion technologies are the key).  
So the increase in greenhouse gas emmissions is 
1. false
2. unimportant.
Newer fuels
> like natural gas, 
> hydrogen gas, nuclear power, wind power, solar
> power, etc. are a product of 
> innovation in the last few decades. 
How large a percentage of US energy use do they
constitute.  It is very small.
We're bound to
> have more innovation that 
> to be competitive will need to produce more energy
> at essentially the 
> no-waste level.

Why.  Business loves to privatize the profits and
socialize the costs.   
> Instead of what Utahman says, I think WE have the
> innovation wrapped around 
> our fingers. We just need to pursue it. Who knows
> what the future has in 
> store. Hopefully clean and sustainable energy.

"Hopefully" undermines even your enthusiasm.  If it is
as logical and reasonable as you think, the it would
would a functional definite....  
>
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