Re: OT:Thanksgiving

"Alistair" <alistair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Judson McClendon" <ju...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Alistair" <alist...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Judson McClendon" <ju...@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.

And that way you will never get anything done because your knowledge
will never be complete.

And yours is, of course, qualifying you to drastically change millions of
other people's lives and spend trillions of dollars of other people's money. ;-)

I see nothing wrong with that. Your approach is like buying a new pc.
There will always be a better speced machine coming soon so why commit
to buying this years' model when it will be out of date so soon.

I know you see nothing wrong with that, which is the problem. You see
analogy where there isn't. The global warming scenario isn't analogous to
selecting a PC when you're going to buy one. It's more like rushing to buy
a terribly expensive one you probably won't need or want at all, when you
can know for sure if you will need it, or a much less expensive one, by just
waiting a bit.
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Judson McClendon judmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (remove zero)
Sun Valley Systems http://sunvaley.com
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that
whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life."


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