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Simon Norton | 1 Jul 2003 16:30

global warming

The George Monbiot article in today's (UK) Guardian provides evidence in support
of the claim that we are on the brink of a mass extinction which could come
about this century, i.e. within the lifetime of people already born.
 Simon Norton

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De Clarke | 1 Jul 2003 18:16
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Re: global warming

Simon Norton (norton@...) wrote:
> The George Monbiot article in today's (UK) Guardian provides evidence in support
> of the claim that we are on the brink of a mass extinction which could come
> about this century, i.e. within the lifetime of people already born.

from the article, a perhaps unintentionally pointed passage:

	The world's surface came to be dominated by just one of these,
	an animal a bit like a pig. It became ubiquitous because nothing
	else was left to compete with it or to prey upon it.

I wonder if it drove an SUV...

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De Clarke | 2 Jul 2003 00:46
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ADDD?


http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=danews.story&STORY=/www/story/07-01-2003/0001974731&EDATE=TUE+Jul+01+2003,+08:31+AM

	MERIDEN, Conn., July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- According to an 
	analysis by Response Insurance of their national 
	driving survey, people who use cell phones when driving 
	are more likely to be distracted from the road even 
	when they are not talking on a phone.  The results 
	indicate there may be a "distracted-driver 
	personality" type behind the wheel.

	[more]

I'm sure Pfizer will have a designer pharma product out any
day now to combat this newly minted pathology :-)

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RIIN GILL | 2 Jul 2003 04:23
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Re: ADDD?

On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, De Clarke wrote:

>
> http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=danews.story&STORY=/www/story/07-01-2003/0001974731&EDATE=TUE+Jul+01+2003,+08:31+AM
>
> 	MERIDEN, Conn., July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- According to an
> 	analysis by Response Insurance of their national
> 	driving survey, people who use cell phones when driving
> 	are more likely to be distracted from the road even
> 	when they are not talking on a phone.  The results
> 	indicate there may be a "distracted-driver
> 	personality" type behind the wheel.
>
> 	[more]
>
> I'm sure Pfizer will have a designer pharma product out any
> day now to combat this newly minted pathology :-)

I see people walking all over campus with cell phones glued to their
heads, yammering non-stop.  They can't walk from Point A to Point B
without talking on the phone the whole way.  If they take the bus
somewhere, they talk the whole time they're waiting for the bus, while
they're stepping onto the bus, during the whole bus ride, and while they
step off the bus.  I don't think they know how to be alone with their own
thoughts.  Maybe the idea of being alone with their own thoughts is too
frightening.  They have to fill the void.  I don't know.  I *need* time to
be alone with my thoughts.  I need silence.

Two of the things that clear my head the best are bicycling and gardening.
They both can put me into a kind of trance at times.  I've seen a few
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Dan Kavanagh | 2 Jul 2003 22:50

Re: Cellphone ADDD pharmacology

Hi All,

 Perhaps they will make a civilian version of the amphetamines that they
gave to those pilots who bombed the Canadian soldiers in Afganistan.

 Flying high, so very high.

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De Clarke | 4 Jul 2003 07:17
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good article on sustainability


http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16306

the fellow being interviewed has coined a useful phrase:  "the failure
of success".  seems very applicable to the US transportation system.

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John Snyder | 4 Jul 2003 18:10
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Re: good article on sustainability

Thank you De, for having pointed out the URL to 
"Where Agriculture Meets Empire." I find the ideas 
compelling, worth the effort of re-reading several 
times.

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Ed Beighe | 4 Jul 2003 23:11
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Re: special tax break for SUV/truck owners

By the way -- the $100,000 loophole is now law.  Our local Cadillac/Hummer
dealer is adverstising:

"PUBLIC NOTICE, take advantage of the new tax law for 2003 -- section 179
depreciation, deduct up to $100,000 on your next tax return... Escalade,
EXT, Hummer H1 and H2"
It's kind of cute, supposed to look like an official announcement, no
pictures, etc.

I queried my congressman why extra tax breaks are being made available for
luxury SUVs but not for cars.
His answer? "tax breaks for small business stimulates the economy."...
missing the point entirely of course.
(what did I expect from a pol?)

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> http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/1220-09.htm
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> the bogus "commercial vehicle" classification of trucks and
> SUVs kicks in to give substantial tax breaks to SUV buyers.
>
> de

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Simon Norton | 5 Jul 2003 20:54

two articles

While looking for something else (chapters of Greg Palast's book "The Best
Democracy Money can Buy" that had been removed from the UK edition for legal
reasons) I discovered an interesting article "The Do Nothing Strategy" by Karyn
Stricker. Another article regretting the defensiveness of campaigners, and
specifically mentioning transport issues, appeared in "The Ecologist" by
Guardian journalist Ros Coward, who is also linked with our national transport
campaign group Transport 2000. (This article does not seem to be on the
Ecologist website.)

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Simon Norton | 5 Jul 2003 21:00

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Sorry, I forgot to give the reference for the "do nothing" article; it is
http://www.utne.com -- anyone know anything about who they are ? The Ecologist
website is http://www.theecologist.org

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