[rescue] Re: geek vehicles

[Dave McGuire]

On August 28, Paul Sladen wrote:
> > Sure, we can support tons of people in the short run, but in the long
> > run, we end up making that area unusable for food production.
> 
> The same applies to the US attitude towards Fossil Fuels;  only having it
> the short term is wrecking the rest of the world in the process.
> 
> The US also takes /no/ account of Side Effects, ethics, or human-health (!)
> when producing food;  or that pumping huge amounts of anti-biotics into to
> cattle for short-term monetary gain might affect humans in a bad way by
> reducing the effectiveness of these drugs generally;  particularly since the
> meat is to /consumed/ by humans.

  I agree.

  But please don't lump all US citizens into that.  We have a LARGE
number of suits in this country, and their #1 goal is to make money at
any cost in the short term, no matter who they screw in the process.
We're not all like that.  As a matter of fact, some of us are even
quite angry about it...but we seem rather well outnumbered.

          -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD