On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 04:43:18 -0700, Dan Clore
> Bear in mind that to your interlocutor, anything vaguely resembling
> concern for the environment is tantamount to an orgy of skyclad pagans
> practicing human sacrifice at the altar of the Great Goddess Gaia.
Consider the death rate from malaria. That is a fairly substantial
human sacrifice. In theory, DDT is to be permitted where necessary,
but somehow, neither DDT nor any other cheap persistent insecticide is
ever found to be necessary.
We now have our first environmentalist famine, caused by restrictions
on oil search, restrictions on coal to liquid conversion, and state
subsidy and coercive imposition of biofuels. That is a fairly
substantial human sacrifice.
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