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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Space Shuttle Destroys Ozone Layer ???
Message-ID: <1990Aug27.165426.17695@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <14754@shlump.nac.dec.com> <5852@castle.ed.ac.uk> <90238.003420JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 90 16:54:26 GMT

In article <90238.003420JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu> JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu (JKT) writes:
>>If one use even more common sense, it might be `obvious' that a volcano
>>eruption isn't such a good thing for the environment.
>
>A volcano eruption *is* the environment.

Good point.  There is a pervasive illusion in certain quarters that Mother
Nature is our friend.  Wrong; dead wrong.  She doesn't care at all whether
we live or die... and she loves surprises.
-- 
Committees do harm merely by existing. | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
                       -Freeman Dyson  |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry