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Skriven 2005-09-22 15:56:08 av SHANNON TALLEY (1:275/311)
     Kommentar till en text av Roy Witt
Ärende: Re: The Econuts! 
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Roy,

On September 15th, the famous author Michael Crichton spoke to the 
Commonwealth Club in San Francisco.  It was a fantastic speech that talked 
about "environmental religion" (environmentalism).  He compared 
environmentalism to modern Judeo-Christian beliefs, and tied it all in very 
well.  I'll quote a very small section of the speech (below). He wrote of 
his comparison between the two religions and of the fundamental belief of 
environmentalism in as much as environmentalists believe that at one point 
in time in history, the earth was an "Eden" -- before we destroyed it.

"There is no Eden. There never was. What was that Eden of the wonderful 
mythic past? Is it the time when infant mortality was 80%, when four 
children in five died of disease before the age of five? When one woman in 
six died in childbirth? When the average lifespan was 40, as it was in 
America a century ago. When plagues swept across the planet, killing 
millions in a stroke. Was it when millions starved to death? Is that when it 
was Eden?"

"And what about indigenous peoples, living in a state of harmony with the 
Eden-like environment? Well, they never did. On this continent, the newly 
arrived people who crossed the land bridge almost immediately set about 
wiping out hundreds of species of large animals, and they did this several 
thousand years before the white man showed up, to accelerate the process."

There is much more to his speech and anyone interested (pro or con) should 
take some time to read it.

http://www.crichton-official.com/speeches/speeches_quote05.html

Note: For those that don't know, Michael Crichton has authored many famous 
novels including Jurassic Park, Prey, the Great Train Robbery, Twister and 
many more.

Cheers!
Shannon


<Roy Witt> wrote in message news:1127414748.334.0@fidotel.com...
> The Ec(h)onuts are wrong!
>
> Econuts are wrong to blame Hurricane Kartina on Bush or Global Warming.
>
> By now you've probably heard about the lunatic comments of Robert E.
> Kennedy Jr, Felten, Sanders and Vlist.  The Cindy Sheehans of the
> environmental movement, who blamed Hurricane Katrina on President Bush and
> Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour for not buying into the global warming
> hype, and not signing up for the throughly-discredited Kyoto Treaty.
>
> These eco-crazy people are not alone in their delusions.
>
> In Europe the president is being castigated for not falling in line with
> all those Old World socialists eager to use the alleged warming of the
> world climate to create a new world order (UN) organsized along the lines
> laid down by Karl Marx.
>
> Their cynicism and political opportunism has drawn the scorn of the
> widely-acclaimend British social anthropologist Benny Peiser, a fellow of
> the Royal Astronomical Society whose research focuses on the effects of
> environmental change and catastrophic events on contemporary thought and
> societal evolution.
>
> Here's what one of them wrote about the attacks on President Bush by the
> global warming fanatics:
>
> "Notwithstanding continuing rescue and support efforts, the calamity has
> triggered a rather opportunistic and cynical reaction by opponents of the
> current U.S. Administration. In an eerie development that echoes the
> political exploitation of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster last December,
> environmental campaigners, Green journalists and European officials are
> blaming (once again) the U.S. and its people for the devastation caused by
> Hurricane Katrina. Instead of supporting the rescue efforts, demagogues
> are using the human tragedy in a futile attempt to score points. At a time
> of utter desolation and misfortune, propagandists in high office and parts
> of the media are abandoning America and its victims for purely political
> goals"
>
> What he said next should endear him to every American: "Europeans in
> particular, who have been rescued and liberated from themselves by the
> U.S. no less than three times in the course of the 20th century, should
> feel ashamed for kicking a friend and ally when he is down.
>
> Let me reassure our American friends and colleagues that this pitiless
> mindset of environmental activists is not representative for that vast
> majority of Europeans who are following the heartbreaking events with
> great concern and empathy."
>
> Nobody could have said it better. I hope Germany's environmental minister
> Jurgen Trittin was listening. He blames George Bush for hurricane Katrina
> despite the fact that the statistics don't show a particular increase in
> the frequency of hurricanes in the U.S. in the last decades.
>
> According to Herr Trittin, President Bush has neglected environmental
> protection and shut his eyes "to the economic and human damage that
> natural catastrophes like Katrina inflict on his country and the world's
> economy."
>
> He and his Econut pals should listen to Professor Kerry Emanuel of the
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who told Britain's The Independent:
> "I don't think you can put this down to global warming."
>
> Dr. William Gray, a Colorado State University meteorologist, considered
> one of the fathers of modern tropical cyclone science, says worldwide
> weather records were too inadequate for a thorough examination of trends.
> "The people who have bias in favor of the argument that humans are making
> the globe warmer will push any data that suggests humans are making
> hurricanes worse, but it just isn't so. These are natural cycles," he told
> the New York Times.
>
> In a 2001 paper in Science, by Stanley Goldenberg of the National
> Oceanographic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA), it was explained that
> the Atlantic goes through decades-long stretches where it creates extra
> hurricanes while there are equally long lulls where the number of
> hurricanes is low.
>
> Over recent decades we have been in a lull period. According to Professor
> John Molinari of Albany's State University of New York: "We were way below
> normal levels of hurricanes in the 1970s,'80s, and '90s." Now he says it
> appears that Goldenberg and his colleagues were right, and that the east
> coast of the United States is in a period of increased hurricane activity
> that could last 20 years or more."
>
> And George Bush has nothing to do with that. It's all Mother Nature's
> fault.
>
> Mike Reagan
>
> (Mike Reagan, the eldest son of President Ronald Reagan, is heard on
> more than 200 talk radio stations nationally as part of the Radio America
> Network)
>
>
> Roy
>
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