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Skriven 2005-09-24 12:04:19 av Roy Witt (1:1/22)
  Kommentar till text 12593 av SHANNON TALLEY (1:275/311)
Ärende: The Econuts! 
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22 Sep 05 15:56, SHANNON TALLEY wrote to Roy Witt:

 ST> Roy,

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

 ST> "There is no Eden. There never was.

He didn't go back in time far enough. There's no evidence to support it,
but the Jews tell of a story about a flood that reshaped the world as it
was known before the flood. The Andiluvian World they (not particularly
the Jews) sing about in a song from the 60s.

But, in the song that starts out with 'In The Year 2929', etc...the
following might apply. :o)

 ST> What was that Eden of the wonderful mythic past? Is it the time when
 ST> infant mortality was 80%, when four children in five died of disease
 ST> before the age of five? When one woman in six died in childbirth?
 ST> When the average lifespan was 40, as it was in America a century ago.
 ST> When plagues swept across the planet, killing millions in a stroke.
 ST> Was it when millions starved to death? Is that when it was Eden?"

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



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

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

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

 ST> Cheers!
 ST> Shannon


 ST> <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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