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Re: The Limits To Growth
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Subject: Re: The Limits To Growth
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From: jwas@ix.netcom.com(jw)
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Date: 23 Dec 1996 03:26:53 GMT
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Article: 17682 of alt.sustainable.agriculture
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In <32BB4A8E.7C94@rippers.com> norm lenhart <lenhart@rippers.com>
writes:
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>jonny wrote:
>>
>> How many cures to cancer or other
>> diseases will be lost forever, for example, due to habitat
reduction
>> and species extinction?
>>
>
>
>How many may have already been due to eco terrorists like PETA, EF?!?
>and The Liberators - "liberating" lab animals from Cancer rescearch
>facilities ?
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>> We may never know, will we?
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>Thats the sad truth of it. One of those rats could have held info that
>led to the cure of cancer or AIDS, even the cure itself. But due to
some
>misguided fanatic's actions, it could be years before another is
found.
>But of course that didn't happen. Or did it ?
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>If you ever loose a loved one to these presently "incureable" diseases
>(and I sincerly hope you do not) Think about this.
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>What if .....?
How many cures for cancer, for old age, for
social evils, how many priceless gifts
to the world that might
have made it a better and wiser place
have been lost forever - because the baby that would
have bestowed the gift was *never born*, a victim
of population control.
An *empty manger*: a seasonal and sobering image.
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