Emma,
Steve's reasoning is flawed. Cars are not mandatory, especially in large
cities. People can always take the bus, fast rail transit or some other form
of public transport. People even in the forests near Golfo Dulce, Costa
Rica, have a fridge. The only other electronic device they have is a 12 volt
TV. The stock will be propane or kerosene. The fridge is all that modern
technology has to offer that is essential, well except an internet fridge
[Electrolux].
Secondly, air conditioning in California is almost entirely a waste of
energy. Some people there heat the swimming pools. If you are Canadian, then
cold water is below -55, but for a person in Los Angelos cold water is
about -72 [Fahrenheit] or less.
I was an american [US - American] city once ....Salt Lake City. I never saw
anyone riding a bike, or walking, and very few buses. The street lights are
opportunities for smokers to flick ciggarette butts onto the street where
the side walk cornersa are located. The butts pile up in drifts and
sometimes plug up the city drains. I heard that someone was overcome once by
a wash of cigg. buts one day whilst crossing a street during a down pour.
When I went to the US national park called Mojave and Canyonlands, I went to
the confluence of the Green and Colorado Rivers. Before I got there I found
volunteers in the park raking up foot prints. These footprints were in the
sand across from the Maze area. The volunteers told me that the week before
was spring break and there were hundreds of students who drove there from as
far away as LA and Denver City. They go there to find wilderness because
this is the most remote and large wilderness area in the contiquous US.
I had to laugh because I never find other hikers or footprints in most of my
wilderness adventures here in BC.
Even my backyard is 50,000 wilderness without trails.
----- Original Message -----
From: Steve <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 9:10 AM
Subject: Re: an "ethics of terrorism"? was Re: State Sponsored Ecoterror
> Emma,
>
> Most houses have a refrigerator. Most households in say, Southern
> California have an electricity consumption of 500 kWh a month. The
> refirgerator is generally the single largest consumer of that electricity
> (during summer months in some regions the AC unit would probably surpass
> the fridge). So when you have about 3.5 million of the things running the
> impact is going to be large. Granted cars might be a larger impact, but
> fridges would probably make it into the top ten list.
>
> Steve
>
>
>
> --- emma fieldhouse <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >Steve Verdon writes:
> > I want to trash you refirgerator...after all it is probably you largest
> > consumer of electricity, and electricity generation is done primarily
> > via
> > fossil fuels which might contribute to global warming.
> >
> > Emma F writes...
> >
> > Surely owning and running a car has a greater environmental impact than
> > a
> > refrigerator? (Or supporting multinationals like McDonalds perhaps?!!!)
> >
> > Chao...EJF
> >
> >
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