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Greenbuilding Archive for January 2002
564 messages, last added Tue Nov 26 17:26:25 2002

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Re: [GBlist] Better than OT politics




The day before yesterday, the weatherman forecast snow.

It was a beautiful clear day.

Yesterday,  the weatherman again forecast snow.

It was another beautiful clear day.

Today, I confidently predict that it will never snow again.

Sound Crazy?

Then could we please refrain from the following argument:

> Do I think the world will exhaust its oil? No I don't, this lament has
> been made many years running and the world has always changed to
> disprove each earlier forecast of doom.

Perhaps someone can explain to me how a finite resource can be 
infinitely used up.  I am only a math person so I have trouble with it.  
Then I can explain it to my friends the Great Auks.



Sorry for the rant.

Corwyn


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Corwyn
Kermit didn't know the half of it...
corwyn@midcoast.com


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