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Re: Brashears on Hanson



Michael Tobis (tobis@scram.ssec.wisc.edu) wrote:
: Yuri Kuchinsky (yuku@io.org) wrote:

: : Unfortunately, they aren't assumptions at all, but a description of
: : reality.

: An incorrect one, alas.

There's only one.

: : The destruction of Nature will inevitably result in social
: : (self)destruction.

: Perhaps so, but using invalid arguments to support this position,
: as Hanson does, serves to discredit rather than justify such a
: position. 

Which invalid arguments?

: As far as your statement goes, perhaps you would do better to
: qualify "destruction" and/or define "Nature". To a physicist,
: for instance, your position is utterly meaningless.

Maybe to you. Have you read the World Scientists' Letter on Environment? 

: Asserting your feelings is not a way to have the slightest influence
: on those who disagree with you in the first place, but perhaps it
: will make you feel better. 

A little bit.

: For myself, since I do think that environmental problems are indeed
: serious, and that progress on them requires careful reasoning,
: your and Hansen's shabby arguments and vain emoting make me feel 
: substantially worse.

I don't think you're too sincere about seeing the problems for
environment... Your tone says something quite different.

Yuri.

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