RE: [Paddlewise] Chief Seattle's words

From: Michael Daly <mikedaly_at_magma.ca>
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 19:03:48 -0500
On 7 Dec 2004 at 13:03, Steve Brown wrote:

> I'm not sure where you live, but where I live we are not suffocating
> on our own waste. I don't seem to be lacking any resources. I have
> everything I need and then some. Also, I doubt anyone is over
> producing anything on a regular basis since that would be financially
> self limiting.

You are either extremely lucky or very ignorant of your own 
existance.  Look up the effects of air pollution on decreasing life 
expectancy in North American cities.  Consider that a significant 
part of your resources, and much of your oil, is imported.  Also, 
contact your local senator or rep for information on how much of your 
tax dollars are spent on financially supporting food production that 
goes nowhere.  Then look up the same for other countries.  Food 
production is the most overly subsidized industry in the OECD and 
there is definitely overproduction.  Starvation in other parts of the 
world is due to an inability to deal with transporting food from 
places where it's overproduced to places where it's scarce.

Mike
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