Just one problem. This is from the last paragraph (below):
"The good news is that there's not a trade-off here between prosperity, jobs,
growth and protecting the Earth. We can do both."
Actually, the earth will not survive endless growth of human population or of
economic activity, even if all energy used in that economic activity comes
from renewable sources.
Tom
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Subj: And now for something completely different regarding global
warming....
Date: 5/22/2006 1:07:15 PM Central Daylight Time
From: [log in to unmask] (Cindy Hildebrand)
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...and I only wish it really were a Monty Python joke! Sorry about the
formatting problem.
Cindy
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May 17, 2006
Reuters:
"Carbon Dioxide...We Call It Life"
A little girl blows away dandelion fluff as an announcer says, "Carbon
dioxide: they call it pollution; we call it life," in an advertisement targeting
global warming "alarmists," especially Al Gore.
> The television ads, screened for the press on Wednesday and set to air in
> 14 U.S. cities starting on Thursday, are part of a campaign by the Competitive
> Enterprise Institute to counter a media spotlight on threats posed by
> worldwide climate change.The spots are timed to precede next week's theatrical
> release of "An Inconvenient Truth," a documentary film on global warming that
> features Gore, the former vice president and Democratic presidential candidate.
> Against backdrops of a park, a beach and a forest, one celebrates the benefits
> of greenhouse gas-producing fuels."The fuels that produce CO2 (carbon
> dioxide) have freed us from a world of back-breaking labor, lighting up our lives,
> allowing us to create and move the things we need, the people we love," the
> ad runs. "Now some politicians want to label carbon dioxide a pollutant.
> Imagine if they succeed — what would our lives be like then?"The other ad
> questions media reports of the threat of climate change, especially a Time magazine
> issue devoted to the topic, and shows film of a glacier melting and then runs
> in reverse to show the glacier reconstituting itself."We had started work on
> this several months back, but we sort of changed course once the flood of
> glacier-melting stories began," said Sam Kazman, an institute lawyer who worked
> on the ads. "So we did want to get out there before the Al Gore film got into
> national opening." "They fly in the face of most of the science," Charlie
> Miller of Environmental Defense said of the institute ads. "The good news is
> that there's not a trade-off here between prosperity, jobs, growth and
> protecting the Earth. We can do both." ***(Cindy here -- how about "Urine -- We Call
> It Yellow Water," or "Tobacco Smoke -- We Call It Romantic Haze"? The
> possibilities are endless, folks...
>
***
Cindy Hildebrand
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Ames, IA 50010
"To convert the many beautiful lakes of Iowa into fields for cultivation,
appears to me to be utilitarianism run mad.. The state has more than poetic
interest in such lakes...If by any means the lakes of Iowa can be preserved, it
should by all means be done." (Iowa Attorney General Milton Remley, 1895)NT>
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