From: jks2x@holmes.acc.Virginia.EDU (Jason K. Schechner)
Subject: Re: DATELINE: Bush fucks up!
Keywords: Tree huggers, Bud-chugging-hairy-backed-red-necked-conservatives
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 07:04:47 GMT

In article <swood.716272312@vela> swood@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Scott Wood - EVENSONG) writes:
>yuna@athena.mit.edu (Yuna Huh) writes:
>
>`mostly with girls who feel
>`that having a baby is the only way to improve their lives or to bring meaning
>`into it.
>
>`How can our education system have failed us to the point where intermediate
>`school-aged kids feel they have no future to look foward to?
>
>I know a girl with the attitude.  She has been in and out of a mental
>home for attempted suicide.  She always talks of how she wants a baby
>to give her a reason to live.  I don't think you can blame George for
>her, or the school system.  Her problems stem from her mother.  Both
>from a lack of positive value enforcement and from down right psychological
>abuse.
>
	This girl you know (I know two just like her) is by far, not
the rule, but is the exception.  If she's been in and out of mental
hospitals that should clue you in that you can't generalize from her
case.  A good friend of the family owns some low-income housing and is
constantly telling me stories about the people who live there.  They
are the norm.  She told me that whenever they have to go to a job or
welfare interview they dress in the rattiest clothing they own and
don't shower for a week.  She can smell them all the way upstairs.
She also said that they DO have kids just for the extra sum in the
check.  She said the other people in the neighborhood are just like
her tennants.  They're not stuck in a loop, they're making the loop.  
	But this discussion belongs elsewhere.

>But why not blame Bush for everything.  After all, he can make laws, he
>can only veto them...

	Ah, but if he wanted to he could get the entire country into
an uproar about anything he wants.  Flag burning.  Need I say more?

>
>`"Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees."  --Ronald Reagan
>
>And why include this quote?  You read that new book didn't you?  Well,
>for your information trees do cause 'air' pollution - I can't attest
>for the figure of 80% as I am not an ecologist.  But you must not let
>your emotions get ahold of you before considering the logic in this.
>Do not let yourself equate air pollution with other kinds of pollution.

	Actually, trees do NOT produce air pollution they clean it
up.  They take in CO2 and give off O2.  We and our factories/cars/etc
do just the opposite.  You may be thinking of decaying trees, that
give off some pollutants, but it isn't the live ones.  What does,
however, give off a large amount of greenhouse gasses is volcanos and
biological decay.  That may be what you're thinking of.

>Remember, there are a hell of a lot more trees in the world than there
>are cars or flagellating cows, and the pollution (spoken of) they give
>off is activily produced from sun-up to sun-down if I understand
>correctly.
	Even so, one car gives off MUCH more polution than one cow.
Think about it.

>swood
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