Re: OT:Thanksgiving

On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 12:15:46 -0600, "Judson McClendon"
<judmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"SkippyPB" <swiegand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Judson McClendon" <judmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I agree with your assessment of what we should be doing. It is only the
drastic steps which may not be warranted, that I oppose.

I live in an area that was second (in the U.S.) only to Pittsburg, PA in
steel production for a long time, and there used to be a lot of strip
mining here for the raw materials. Such vast devastation of the environment
was unconscionably stupid and reckless. The EPA has done a lot of good, and
I applaud that. But in it's zeal has also done a lot of harm. To my mind,
the danger on both sides is when you become too zealous and unrestrained in
your thinking; absolutely certain and *have no doubt that you know exactly*
what should be done, when our knowledge is *always* incomplete. Stop. Think.
Realize our limitations. Use reason and common sense, commodities all too
lacking in today's world. But above all, act with humility, not hubris, when
contemplating things with vast cost and sweeping consequences that could be
wasted, damaging or even devastating. I see none of these attributes being
displayed by the global warming alarmists.

Well OK then lets take Jusdon's idea and don't anything until all the
icebergs have melted, all the polar bears are dead and there are no
more coral reefs. Then we'll know without a doubt there is Global
Warming. Of course by then it will be too late to do anything about
it.

What part of "It is only the drastic steps which may not be warranted, that I
oppose" do you take to mean "don't do anything"? ;-)

It is quite simple. This is a problem that has been in the making for
many decades and cannot be reversed by a simple means. Some drastic
measures must be taken because the effect and causation time is so
long.

You've stated the EPA has done a lot of good and it had until Bush
came into office and rolled back some measures and prevented Christy
Whitman from doing her job. The Clean Air and Clean Water acts have
all been dimiminshed and the effects of that are already being felt.
It takes very little to make things bad, it takes a lot to correct it.

Regards,
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