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From: tuv@pmafire.UUCP (Mark Tovey)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Space Shuttle Destroys Ozone Layer ???
Message-ID: <1990Aug28.151023.10736@pmafire.UUCP>
Date: 28 Aug 90 15:10:23 GMT
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In article <1990Aug27.165426.17695@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>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.
>-- 

    Another thing to point out is that we are just as much a product of
nature as anything else in the world and therefore our actions are a 
part of nature. I'm not saying that this is justification to destroy our
environment, only that not all of man's actions that impinge on the so 
called natural order of events are necessarally bad. 
    We are different than the rest of the denizens of this world in that 
we can greatly affect the environment in a very sort time either 
positively or adversely. Rather than stop all progress because we might 
alter the environment slightly, we should be aware of the impact, try to 
find alternatives, and choose the one with the least impact. 
    Shutting down the shuttle program because it adds slightly to ozone 
depletion would be wrong because of the loss of the benifits that can 
be gained from that program. Instead what should be done is to find an
alternative to the SRB that has less of an impact.
    Our nuclear program has been at a standstill because of fears of 
nuclear waste. So instead we build more coal fired plants that have a 
far greater adverse impact. All because of emotional thinking instead of
logical