RE: [Freeflight] Re: This just in about the Monks in CT :-)/Off Topic

["Bart Van Hoyweghen" <bart.van.hoyweghen@...>]

This is a US based list, most of the members live in the USA.

I know this is a dangerous question, but I'll ask it anyhow...

The opinions and ideas expressed here on the list concerning climate,
conservation, pollution, etc. does not correspond with the official foreign
politics of the USA. Or at least, this is what I read in local newspapers.

Are you (US list members) a minority?

I don't want to discuss politics, but honestly, I did not expect a lot of
the remarks I did read recently.

Bart

> > You assume that I agree with your dismal prediction that earth
> will become
> > one big city. Do you not see Mother Nature trying to prevent this?
> AIDS, bird
> > flu, she keeps trying to get our population under control. The
> garbage backup
> > alone will choke out our food sources, and the weather and the
> glaciers are
> > already reacting to out uncontrolled chemical output. Venice is
> sinking,
> > hurricane seasons are getting longer, summers are hotter, winters
> are colder. If
> > your prediction comes true, parrots will be long gone in a hundred
> years, and
> > those in captivity will have little or not food to eat.
> >
> 
> Very soon we will run out of oil. That will be the event that has
> the biggist impact on humanity. It is widely believed that we have
> already passed or are just about to pass the point where we have
> consumed half the world's oil reserves. There simplly aren't any
> more. The half we have consumed is the easy and cheap half to get.
> 
> This year we had so many named tropical storms and hurricanes that
> they ran out of letters and had to start using the Greek alphabet.
> Almost a week after hurricane season officially ended, we had
> HURRICANE Epsilon, that is five letters into the Greek alphabet--
> five more storms the weather people didn't expect in a year they
> expected to be exeedingly bad.
> 
> Janet