In article , riggor wrote:   
   >>> >   
   >> I disagree but ... ok ... I'll bite ...... so what was the purpose of the   
   >> post then?  All you did was post a news item on global warming.  You did   
   >> not pose a topic for discussion.  You did not rally the people.  You did   
   >> not ask for help or action.  You did not ask people to contact their local   
   >> politician.  You did not organize an event.  You did not stage a protest.   
   >>   
   >> That article was all about global warming ... and how it "could" affect   
   >> us. Have you written, called or contacted your local politician?  And if   
   >> so - to do what?  What do you want local politicians to do about it?  What   
   >> do you want Mayor Street to do about it?   
   >>   
   >> So I ask ... what was the purpose of posting a "potential worst case   
   >> scenario" that someone "predicts" of a regional climate issue as a result   
   >> of global warming, into a local city politics newsgroup?   
   >>   
   >> All I see from your responses are a lot of rhetoric .... but not a lot of   
   >> action .....   
   >>   
   >   
   > Correction - my mistake - you are not the original poster - I apologize ...   
   > but my questions are still appropriate for both you and the original poster   
   > ....   
      
   Yep, I just replied to your comment on the original posting, which you then   
   replied to, which I replied to .... :-) I agree with you that the original   
   post didn't call for any action or suggest any solutions to the oncoming   
   problems.  On the other hand, it's impossible to attempt any solutions to   
   problems if you're not aware of them.  I thought the original post was   
   interesting( and relevant to this group) not because it was about global   
   warming in general, but because it dealt with the effects of global warming on   
   the N.E. U.S. specifically, of which we are a part.  Perhaps it would have   
   been better if the poster had advocated some courses of political action that   
   could apply at the local level, but I don't think he has any more answers to   
   the potential problems than any of the rest of us. The fact remains, however,   
   that if the effects he wrote about are likely to occur, now is the time for us   
   to start making plans to deal with them and I don't know of any better   
   mechanism for doing that than the political system.   
      
   At any rate, we can agree to disagree about the relevance of the posting to   
   this group, but, at bottom, the ideas contained in the posting have got me   
   thinking about how to use our local institutions, business, educational, as   
   well as political, to try to deal with the oncoming climate changes so that we   
   can, hopefully, dodge the bullet if and when they do arrive.  And I suspect   
   that was the entire point of his posting where and when he did.   
      
      
   W.   
      
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