On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:18:09 -0400, gfretwell wrote:


Seriously Thomas Friedman summed it up best the other night on CSpan.
The contribution of pollution from the developing world will dwarf what
we will produce in the next 100 years, even if we do nothing and
anything we really can do will be insignificant. It is going to get
hotter, plan on that. It is the result of an industrial society and the
3d world will become more industrialized, whether we like it or not.
They will take the cheapest path. That is not even oil, it is coal.
Enviromnentalism is a rich man's folly. Poor people just want it now,
however they can get it.

Yeah, but, is it environmentalism that is the folly, or is it the resource intensive consumer paradigm? On
this increasingly crowded planet, sustainability should have a place.