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diane9247 World Explorer Reged: 01/15/07 Posts: 1599 Loc: Californian stranded in Oregon Re: Changing sea level by 1 m (Timeline)       07/22/07 09:32 PM Edit   Reply   Quote   Quick Reply   I agree with your point about corn, Jeff. Believe me, I'm all for another answer to our fuel/carbon crisis, but I also worry about forests everywhere. It's a very difficult balance to aim for: producing a better fuel vs. saving the forests from us all. America, specifically conservative America, is a shockingly poor leader on these issues. I don't have much hope that the "solutions" out of Washington will be based on common-sense science. I'm reminded of one of the hottest topics of the '70s: overpopulation. Remember that? It's also one of the core causes of the environmental trouble we're in, though it's nowhere in the news, even now. It wasn't long before the '70s hot topic was, in effect, censored by the Christian Right. (The Catholic Church has similar views on the overpopulation problem, but they're not nearly as influential in American politics.) We certainly could have been the leading nation and brought everyone along with us, but Americans are looking more and more toward solutions from the Bible and pseudo-science. The pressure of the Christian right (and the oil industry) on our politicians, who are terrified of displeasing them and not prone to action in the first place, demonstrate a shameful lack of interest in crises that are well-documented and empirically supported by decades of scientific study. This is militant ignorance, narcissism gone mad. Something I've been wondering...what do we have to lose by "believing in" global warming, anyway? Why is there so much hedging about it, when we'd all be so much better off without doing what we're doing? I can't think of a downside for the planet to finding out, after all that hassle of changing wasteful habits, that global warming was a natural event, after all. -------------------- Women for Women International - For the special needs of women surviving war. Kiva - Small loans changing lives around the world. Bukavu Foundation - For the Panzi Women's Shelter & other programs in Eastern Congo. Room to Read - Change begins with educated children. Post Extras

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