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Re: The Limits To Growth



On Wed, 11 Dec 1996 13:31:20 EDT, Toby Reiter <str4552@OBERLIN.EDU>
wrote:


>p.s. You obviously don't live in Ohio.   States in the industrial belt 
>which continue to be industrialized have some of the worst water quality 
>in the country, mostly because the U.S. government regulates businesses 
>in how fast they can poison other people and animals, and not whether 
>they should be doing it in the first place.
 
Toby,
 
The Monongahela River used to burn from time to time before the white
people arrived in North America.  The original inhabitants used to
skim the oil and rub it on arthritic limbs.
 
The river is now cleaner than it was in 1976, in 1776, or in 1276 --
because we made even more valuable ways of cleaning up nature's oil
spill.  Think Quaker State.
 
                                                              -dlj.



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