Re: Cars make more economic sense than transit: fact

["Chris G" <gabba@tpg.com.au>]

Matt Cremer wrote in message <7n84rn$spl$1@merki.connect.com.au>...
>Rod wrote in message <7n7bd2$9rh$1@news1.mpx.com.au>...
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>>Me thinks that Greedy Westerners who consume 80% of the worlds resources
>and
>>yet account for about 20% of the population.
>>Who produce Green house gases abundantly as they persue their infantile
>>pleasures.
>>Who watch the starving billions die slowly, as they throw more in their
>>garbage disposals than others can find to eat.
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>Now, this sort of thing really annoys me.
>There is no "noble savage" thing. Just because someone is starving doesn't
>mean
>they are blameless.

You cannot really blame modern day people for these things, but you could
place a lot of blame on early imperialism (ie., Britain, Spain, Portugal,
France), because they are the ones who turned most third world countries
into cash crop wastelands instead of food producing lands (where's the
profit in that?  The West has enough food and the thrid world can't pay for
it, so lets make coffee :-)).

>Sure, there are a lot of issues here that probably don't need to be brought
>up in a
>discussion in a "cars" newsgroup ... but aren't there are quite a few
>deserts that were
>made by "non-western" people?

I have no idea about third world countries stuffing their own land up, but I
know Northern China destroyed a lot of its land a few centuries ago, mainly
because of the population requiring the land to be reworked over and over
without cycling.

Chris

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