[TheForge] Clean unused paint cans? OT: POL:

[peter fels]

On Mar 14, 2011, at 7:18 AM, Andrew Vida wrote:

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> dann at wctatel.net wrote:
>> Yep.  Nuclear hazard vs oil hazard.
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> They are equal, only in different ways.  Consider when oil runs out, 
> assuming it will - and this appears the more likely case: we are very 
> dependent on fuels for transportation, heat, manufacturing.  Add to that 
> pharmaceuticals and fertilizers and we will all have front row seats to 
> the largest cull of the human population yet.  The world of humanity as 
> we know it will come to a grinding, screeching, and painfully ugly halt.

Plenty of natural gas and methane hydrate...no biggie.
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>> I had friends send me a bunch of anti-environmentalist emails this past
>> week.  Maybe that just coincided with oil prices jumping up, and a bunch
>> of wannabe Presidential Candidates doing political rallies around Iowa.
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> Environmentalism, as commonly practiced is the very definition of mental 
> illness.

It's a mixed bag..much is good, some is plain silly.

>  I am all for a clean environment, but we as a species are now 
> in a corner, having become dependent on technologies whose realization 
> necessarily incurs an overhead of waste products.  The immediate-term 
> choice before us is continue and seek better alternatives, or stop.  How 
> will we stop on a dime what took the past 200 years to bring to speed 
> without killing half the planet in the doing?
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>> Environmentalists become the political whipping boys, when they try to
>> balance the poisoning of what we eat, drink, and breath( our shared
>> environment) versus economic interests of big business.
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> 	But many don't try to balance anything.

Neither side does Andy, both sides pull the body politic in their favored direction.
>  They go on with their idiotic 
> rantings
Them too, grin.
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