>At 12:10 PM 4/4/00 -0500, Jim wrote:
>>Hi Chris, John,
>>
>>". . . I am dubious about the utility of 'ecosystem health' as a technical
>>term. This expression may have something to recommend it as part of a
>>rhetorical strategy, but even here I am suspicious. Environmentalists have
>>all too often been trapped by their own rhetoric, and the movement as a
>>whole has suffered from its use of misleading metaphors (e.g. 'greenhouse
>>effect,'
>
>What is misleading about the term 'greenhouse effect'?
this is getting out of my area, but here's an article on the web for starters:
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wnatgrn.htm
I'm guessing Jamieson had something like this in mind . . . .
Jim T.
>
>Chris
>
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>University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1AG, UK.
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