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In article <D7vr0u.K8n@cs.dal.ca>, ken@ug.cs.dal.ca (ken M Bendelier) wrote:

>Stuart Croall (umcroall@cc.umanitoba.ca) wrote:

>: under any circumstances.  If you think about though, witha little more 
>: judicious use of our resources, and clever recycling of what we did use, 
>: there really was no need for these resources to run out for thousands 
>: more years.  When you consider that so many nations use so much less 
>: energy and resources per capita than North America

Whose people do not necessarily enjoy the same lavish (comparatively) 
lifestyle as you and I. Would you like to go to some Third World country
and perform the recycling you love so much by searching for food in garbage
dump? ;-)

>: and you consider the 
>: many areas where we have the potential to reduce our consuption and 
>: recover large portions of what we do consume, it strikes me as a rather 
>: irresponsible and gutless response to abandon our planet in favour of 
>: pillaging another.
>
>Ah, the post-modern critique. Good. But it offers no viable alternatives.
>Interesting the hostility that you are now introducing. There is nothing
>"gutless" about exploring the unknown. Indeed, aside from soldiers actions
>in battle, there may be no higher degree of courage

Courage??? Sacrificing your life so that your taxes would go to the 
government of your present country as opposed to some other government??? ;-)
(For that's what most wars are about)

>And you never offered a response as to exactly why you thought my critique
>of your suggestions was incorrect. But, I would recommend that, should you
>wish to pursue useful dialogue as opposed to a simple flame-war, that you
>tone down a tad on the language and belligerance.

Yes, Stu, it would help if you didn't take every message criticizing your
viewpoint as a threat to your mastery of this group :-)

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