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Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?]
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Wed, 12 Jan 2000 11:38:31 GMT
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On Tue, 11 Jan 2000 20:34:30 GMT, mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller)
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> Oh my -- I don't think the market will do a good job of taking care of the
> enviroment at all. It's way too much of a long term thing. I think it's been
> adequately shown that, in the absence of some sort of regulation,
> corporations will do very very nasty things to the environment. I'm not even
> talking about hard-to-quantify potential problems like global warming --
> look at leaded gasoline, for example.
Screw leaded gasoline - look at the dumping of heavy metals in
every-place-they-can-find, historically.
And lead, cadmium, and all the rest are much more heinous in those
sorts of concentrations than in leaded gasoline.
There's less problems from the lead in the gasoline than from the
platinum in catalysts. Did you know nowadays when a road gets broken
up, it's economically viable to take the rubble and refine it solely
for the platinum and the reconstituted asfalt?
Jasper
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| (...) "Rule" is a complicated word, of course. KJV says "let them have dominion over". I don't know what the original hebrew uses, or the cultural implications of the concept when this was put into writing. My understanding is that ancient hebrew (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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