(OFF) RE: [PrintOwners] Global Warming (Alaska votes - bring iton!)

[Scott and Gail Finke]

On Jun 10, 2008, at 6:08 PM, Steve Blatman wrote:
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> It's also instructive to note that it's only after a country's
> economy produces enough wealth that survival isn't an issue, that the
> citizens can devote a portion of that wealth to activities that leave
> a cleaner environment. China, for example, is at the "raw survival"
> stage, and you can see that, in their haste to add more power
> generation capacity, they don't pay a lot of attention to pollution.
> Taxing energy production back to the stoned age is going to put US
> back to a survival economy. If the left really gave a damn about the
> environment, they'd want as much wealth generation as possible in
> every society, so we'd have the resources to devote to what are, from
> a survival perspective, side issues.
>

Just like countries that prosper have a lower birthrate, so trying to  
get third world countries (either by brute force, like China, or  
coersion, like the UN) to have smaller families so that they will  
prosper is going about things all wrong. We have the luxury of being  
in the position to be able to care about our environment, so we clean  
up our mess, but we think people who are at the economic stage we  
were when our pollution was the worst should just quit it. We have  
the luxury (after centuries of bloody wars) to live in peace, so we  
think people whose political stage is not settled should just stop  
fighting. We expect a lot of other people that we didn't do, and we  
expect them to do it without the only reasons that were compelling  
for us, just because we say so.


Gail Finke
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