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My Dear Max,

I'm sure that all of the avid subscribers to this newsgroup have seen
footage of a bridge collapsing due to unforseen circumstances or cost
cutting; or even due to unanticipated harmonics. The beauty of these bridge
disaters is that you can watch footage from the detached comfort of a bar or
engineering lecture room.

From where do you suppose we could watch the footage of our planet becoming
uninhabitable? The moon is somewhat unhospitable and Mars is such a long way
to go!

As an aside, one has to question the credability of an anti-environmentalist
named Dr Green...he sounds like a character out of a badly written batman
movie.

For my money, I'm just an average Joe, one of the victims. I don't want to
have to pay any more for what I have and I don't want to give any of it up.
However, having read David Suzuki's �The Sacred Ballance� I feel that things
are back in perspective. I commend the book to you, its an excellent read.

I hope for my children's sake that a head in the sand approach won't lead to
too little too late...I judge my actions through the eyes of my unborn
grandchildren...In the end, it all comes down to consequences!

My only crime was the greatest crime: ignorance.

Yours Aye

Ian

Max Beran wrote in message
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>Richard Vialls
>
>You display a trait that is very common among the "radical concerned"; a
>diminished ability to distinguish a proper level of response to risks that
>we know exist from those that we do not know if they exist. And when I say
>"know", I really mean "know", not just "suspect" or "fear".
>
>For example, when we design a structure like a bridge, its basic properties
>are governed by a known set of risks - risks - wind, traffic load, ravages
>of time. We incorporate the unknowable risks within a factor of safety that
>is added to the basic. We rightly would not  act as if the unknowable risks
>were knowable and incorporate them explicitly in the design. That way, it
is
>true, no bridge would ever fall down, but on the other hand we would not
>have the funds to build many bridges.
>
>I trust the analogies with the subject matter of this thread are clear.
>
>Max Beran
>
>Richard Vialls wrote in message ...
>>
>>I personally believe we have to take climate change
>>very seriously indeed - at least while we do more to find out what is
>>really going on.
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>>As for the cost of implementing Kyoto, I believe that more money can be
>>found for environmental change than you suggest. ........ To say
>>that we can't afford environmental improvements today is to push that
>>cost onto tommorow - with inflation.
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