Steve,
>Patagonia is wonderful. Probably one of the last true (i.e. non political)
>wildernesses?) on Earth. I was especially impressed with Peninsula Valdes
>http://whc.unesco.org/sites/937.htm which is a World Heritage Site. I got
to
>see Orcas hunting sea lions, sea elephants, penguins, peregrine falcons,
>lots of other cool stuff.
Cool!
>On the "GM disaster in Argentina," I did find this
>http://www.mindfully.org/GE/2004/Argentina-GM-Soya17apr04.htm
>However the article appears to be a hoax, or at least this site
>http://www.truthabouttrade.org/article.asp?id=1696 says that it is. A
search
>of New Scientist fails to find the article in the first citation. My
>suspicion is that it is another one of those "Real told you so opportunity
>or the scare mongers" that just doesn't pan out. Of course I could be
>wrong, but I'm still of the opinion that GM is, like the anti-nukes and
>animal rights, an issue the environmental movement (of which I am a charter
>member) has gone astray on.
Now that's odd as I thought I'd seen it in the New Scientist (don't get time
to read much else)
I'll have to dig through some back issues, I wonder if they got duped?
>Re Kerry. His credentials on environmental issues are impeccable. Just
>because he doesn't agree on *all* issues doesn't mean much, again IMHO. At
>any rate, I think the connection between gasoline prices and overall
>commitment to the environment pretty weak. Sounds like you have some other
>issue Duncan.
No issue really just think it's a shame that someone who has otherwise a
very strong
environmental stance appears to pandering to the motorist voters on this
issue, the US
already having the highest petrol consumption in the world etc. The realist
part of me suspects
it may be a necessary position in order to win, the idealist part thinks
it's a shame.
Duncan
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