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[Brian K. White]

>> James Hogan's ``Kicking the
>> Sacred Cow''

Similarly:

http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/magazine/16-06/ff_heresies_intro


The bullet list is:

10 GREEN HERESIES

Live in Cities:
Urban Living Is Kinder to the Planet Than the Suburban Lifestyle

A/C Is OK:
Air-Conditioning Actually Emits Less C02 Than Heating

Organics Are Not the Answer:
Surprise! Conventional Agriculture Can Be Easier on the Planet

Farm the Forests:
Old-Growth Forests Can Actually Contribute to Global Warming

China Is the Solution:
The People's Republic Leads the Way in Alternative-Energy Hardware

Accept Genetic Engineering:
Superefficient Frankencrops Could Put a Real Dent in Greenhouse Gas 
Emissions

Carbon Trading Doesn't Work:
Carbon Credits Were a Great Idea, But the Benefits Are Illusory

Embrace Nuclear Power:
Face It. Nukes Are the Most Climate-Friendly Industrial-Scale Form of Energy

Used Cars — Not Hybrids:
Don't Buy That New Prius! Test-Drive a Used Car Instead

Prepare for the Worst:
Climate Change Is Inevitable. Get Used to It

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I do think we have allowed and are continuing to allow ourselves to 
overpopulate the planet, and that at this rate, let alone this rate of 
increasing rate, we will be in for an unpleasant time before long.

But I don't actually think the best answer to that is conservation and 
living without. I say charge ahead and do whatever we want and consume 
whatever we want and be the tool-using masters of all we survey.

Hoping the planet stays the way we like it by shying away from touching 
or disturbing it is stupid and mystical. It's essentially praying to the 
planet.

If we are messing anything up right now, it's not because we have too 
much hubris and should be more humble. It's because we are still infants 
and too timid and half-assed and need to do a whole lot _more_ of what 
we're doing so that we actually get good at it.

Get in there and do even more and in the process learn even more. Then 
when there actually is some problem, rather than saying "Now we pay for 
the sin of pride" and then all die, instead we'll have the power to 
actually address the problem and make it not a problem.

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bkw