XPost: seattle.politics, alt.politics.greens, talk.politics.animals   
   XPost: sci.environment   
   From: sstderr@backpacker.com   
      
   BunnERabbit wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   > You have a number of glaring errors in your logic as well as "FACTS" Mr.   
   > Hall.  But before I   
   > continue, you should know where I'm coming from.  And that is _my_   
   > tree/bunny/whale hugging environmentalism and subsequent polices if I   
   > were in such a position of power would make Al Gore blush.   
   >   
   Al Gore doesn't blush easily.   
      
      
   > Now that we have established my commitment to Mother Nature, let's look   
   > at the problem absent of petty politics sparing all the arithmetic for   
   > now.   
   >   
   > First, the most glaring of all is that you're Canadian.  Last time I   
   > checked, the Nation of Canada uses per capita statistically similar   
   > rates of resource consumption.  Lots of SUV's in Calgary, Toronto,   
   > Vancouver, Montreal, et.al.   
   >   
   Not to mention dumping of sewage into the Straight of Juan de Fuca with   
   only solids removed even though all American cities are fully secondary   
   treatment compliant. Canadians don't care.   
      
      
      
   > OTOH, you are correct that the United States uses more natural resources   
   > not only per capita but in gross numbers.  But this problem isn't   
   > quintessentially American.  It is true that many Americans are   
   > hypocrites as well as 'pigs' for lack of a better word including   
   > so-called leftists in their SUV's and obnoxious estates.   
   >   
   Michael Moore drives a van.   
      
      
      
   > >And what the fuck it was only ONE little ZERO,   
   > >eh ?   
   >   
   > You make the rest of Bunny Huggers look like fools when we try to   
   > advocate environmentalism.  Fodder for dolts such as Rush Limbaugh.   
   >   
   Hall certainly isn't the sort to make a very good case for much of   
   anything except maybe his own mental retardation and/or drug use.   
      
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