[Healeys] Smog Tests and Global Warming

Alan Seigrist healey.nut at gmail.com
Sat Apr 5 18:12:59 MST 2008


Hi Guys -

Out of respect for our International Friends I stayed out of the Friday
Funnies/Clinton Iraq debate, and I am staying out of this one.  I hope all
of you will do the same.

Thanks,

Alan

On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Michael Hartfield <
hartfiel at alumni.princeton.edu> wrote:

> Mr. Eckert
>
> Yes, many World leaders are ready to change the way we live and depress
> the
> World economy to "solve" a problem that cannot be proven to have a human
> solution, but I recall the last time a "scientist," paul ehrlich convinced
> the World we would all starve soon.  Ehrlich wrote an article that
> appeared
> in New Scientist in December 1967. In that article, Ehrlich predicted that
> the world would experience famines sometime between 1970 and 1985 due to
> population growth outstripping resources. Ehrlich wrote that "the battle
> to
> feed all of humanity is over ... In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of
> millions
> of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked
> upon
> now."
>
> Excuse me, but I tend to be somewhat skeptical of mass movements that want
> us all to stop building, driving, manufacturing and growing.  Since the
> 1960s we have done a huge amount to clean the air with more efficient
> engines and unleaded fuels, but it will never be enough for the
> "scientists"
> who want to change the World.
>
> Michael Hartfield
> '65 BJ8
> 1998 Suburban
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Alan

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