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From: torbortc@clutx.clarkson.edu (Tadd,KA2DEW, ,3152621123)
Subject: Re: Ozone and the shuttle
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Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1991 18:03:26 GMT

From article <4607@orbit.cts.com>, by rambler@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Dan Meyer):
> People, poeple, people...
> 
> There is nothing, yes, NOTHING that we can do here on the planet that will
> cause global changes in the earth's climate! For example, the planet belches
> all sorts of pollutants into the atmosphere in far greater quantities than
> man could ever dream of doing. I have had it up to -here- with all of these
> _Chicken Little_ the-sky-is-falling types (the media included) who believe
> that life as we know it will be significantly altered due to man's pilligang 
> of the planet. The only reason life is going to be significantly different is
> that we start to believe that the sky is falling. Chill out people. Start 
> thinking about what the media is saying. Consider that they never get anything
> right. THINK FOR YOURSELF!

Dan,
  This is a very scary attitude.  One neat thing that the earth has done
whilst 'belches all sorts of..in far greater quantities' is to cause
whole classes of animal life to disappear and to cover the planet with
ice for geologic ages.  I'm really not into having that happen in the
near future and I'd just as well not be part of trying to compete with
such an affect.  
  I've also had proof presented to me that species that I have been
familiar with have become extinct in my own lifetime due to man-made
climactic changes.  
  One of the reasons that I feel that the space program is SO important
is that I believe that only space-based resources are going to be  
sufficient to allow us humans to save ourselves down the road.  And if
we don't have a man-presence outside of the gravity well of Earth it may
not be possible to utilize those resources.  What's more important is
that it is people who believe that the Earth is an unlimited resource 
that are going to get us in trouble (and are already getting us in trouble).
"It's not my problem"  he said, "I'm only messing it up a little bit",
"It's everybody else whose not worrying!".  
  It's time to panic, Dan.  Now.  

                                  Tadd Torborg
                              Once again a  
                                  student at Clarkson University

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