From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Wed Jun 13 2001 - 20:45:50 MDT
James Corbally posts the heretical claim that the Earth
may not be dying after all, that it may be true that
the environment is actually improving.
>The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjørn Lomborg, professor of
>statistics at the University of Aarhus in Denmark, is a scathing
>attack on the misleading claims of environmental groups, and the
>'bad news' culture that makes people believe everything is
>getting worse, when by almost all indicators, things
>are getting better.
What??? Listen! The facts be damned. It is absolutely
necessary to create a crisis atmosphere in order to concentrate
maximal power into the hands of the only bodies that can do
anything about it, namely the Federal government. Only by
the use of massive govenment power can the real enemies of
the Earth and the environment---namely corporations and the
whole evil capitalist structure---be brought to heel.
Lee Corbin
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> [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]On Behalf Of J Corbally
> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 4:44 PM
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> posthumanlounge@posthuman.com
> Subject: ENVIR:Is the planet really dying?
>
> Something I picked up on another list.
>
> I get a warm feeling from reading this, and when I get that
> feeling I get uneasy. Is most of this backed up as the
> article says it is?
>
> James...
>
>Recovering Earth
>Environmentalists said our planet was doomed to die. Now
>one man says they are wrong.
>Anthony Browne reports
>www.observer.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,504481,00.html
>Anthony Browne
>Sunday June 10, 2001
>The Observer
>It hardly needed explanation. 'Everyone knows the planet is in
>bad shape,' thundered a Time magazine article last year. The
>seas are being polluted, the forests devastated, species are
>being driven to extinction at record rates, the rain is acid,
>the ozone layer vaporising, and the rivers are so
>poisonous fish are floating on the surface, dead.
>As Al Gore, former US vice-president, put it in his book
>Earth in the Balance : 'Modern industrial civilisation is
>colliding violently with our planet's ecological system.'
>We inherited Eden and are leaving our children
>a depleted rubbish tip.
That's right!!! All power to the people! All power
to the Federal government!!
>But there's a growing belief that what everyone takes for
>granted is wrong: things are actually getting better.
Shocking and scandalous LIES!!
>A new book is about to overturn our most basic assumptions
>about the world's environment. Far from going to hell in a
>handcart, it is improving by almost all measures. Those
>things not getting better are getting worse at a slower rate.
>Rivers, seas, rain and the atmosphere are all getting cleaner.
>The total amount of forests in the world is not declining,
>few species are being made extinct, and many of those that
>were endangered are thriving again.
Absolute sacrilege!
>The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjørn Lomborg, professor of
>statistics at the University of Aarhus in Denmark, is a
>scathing attack on the misleading claims of environmental
>groups, and the 'bad news' culture that makes people
>believe everything is getting worse, when by almost all
>indicators, things are getting better.
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