To the editor:
May I point out that Mr. Pineda’s concerns about the economic impact of mandated reductions in greenhouse emissions are only “theoretical.”
Jared Diamond, professor of geography at UCLA has described past societies that collapsed to a great degree as a result of environmental destruction or “ecocide.” Arnold Toynbee, the eminent British historian, years ago noted that societies tended to die from “suicide” as he termed it rather than from outside influences. And I believe that Pogo said something to the effect, “We have seen the enemy and he is us.”
But since our society has not yet collapsed as a result of environmental destruction such a collapse is only theoretical as are all things predicted by known fundamental theories of physics, biology, and chemistry that have not yet happened regardless of how probable the event. Remember it is less expensive to jump out of the airplane without a parachute than with one, and at the time of the jumping, death is only theoretical.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
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