Re: [Paddlewise] Kayaker's guilt (was:Jet Ski Ban Proposal - Ind

kevin_at_yourplanetearth.org wrote:
} Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Kayaker's guilt (was:Jet Ski Ban Proposal - Ind
> 
> On 06-Dec-2000 Bob Myers wrote:
> > kevin_at_yourplanetearth.org wrote:
> > } Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Kayaker's guilt (was:Jet Ski Ban Proposal - Indi
> >> 
> >>  though autos are much cleaner burning than jet skis, there are heck
> >> of a lot more of them. Given this info, I think it is kind of
> >> hypocritical to talk about banning jet skis from wilderness areas,
> > 
> > Cars are already banned from designated wilderness areas.
> > 
> > It's not hypocritical, it's applying a similar standard.
> 
> On one level, I quite disagree with you. If you think about the total impact
> that the burning of fossil fuels will have on all wilderness areas worldwide,
> then cars are tremendously more significant than PWCs. 

If you're limiting the discussion to global warming, granted.

However, CO2 emissions from jetskis have *just* as much effect on
global warming in wilderness areas and in non-wilderness areas.  Also
"cleaner burning" is irrelevant with respect to CO2 emissions -
perfectly clean hydrocarbon burning produces just water & CO2, and
making the engine burn "cleaner" won't reduce carbon emissions a bit.

So why did you talk about cleaner burning autos, and jetskis
in the wilderness?  Both of these issues are completely irrelevant
to global warming.  I'm sympathetic to your points about global
warming, but you need to focus your argument a bit better.

> I think it is very hypocritical
> to blame jetskiers for destroying very small pockets of wilderness, when autos
> are systematically destroying vast ecosystems on a global scale. 

"Autos" may be doing it, but if my 1 personal auto is doing less
damage to the ecosystem than someone else's 1 personal jetski, I don't
see it as hypocrisy to object to the jetski.  I don't drive 200 million
cars, I drive one.



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