On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 10:43:45 -0800, James Newtons Massmind
<jamesnewton@massmind.org> wrote:
> And now for something COMPLETELY different:
> 
> At the risk of sounding like some tree-hugging eco fanatic, I'll ask: What
> is all that shipping doing to our planet?
> 

> 
> What I am suggesting is that we remember this: If (when?) the cost of
> transportation rises to the point that import/export is no longer effective,
> we are the people who can "pick up the slack" and supply the local market.

Problem is, the true cost of transportation and burning fossil fuels
is never borne by the people who are doing the burning.  :-(

http://www.truehealth.org/climnw05.html

Living in an urban area, I try to do my best to go green, but my other
hobby (autocrossing) is kind of at odds with that.

Alex
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