[MD] Global Warming: Science or Politics?

[Case]

[Platt]
I know you liberals fail to discern much difference between corporations and
governments. The former cannot force people into gulags at the point of gun.
Governments can and do. Big difference in my book.  

[Case]
Big difference in your head more than in actual real world effect. 

[Platt]
Are you suggesting that those are the only sources we should cite as
credible? 

[Case]
Not at all. But the fact that you don't even know what they are says
something about your grip on the facts.

[Platt]
How about those meetings you referred to in the post about brain scans?

[Case]
You would have to refresh my memory on that.

[Platt]
You can read the history in Wikipedia as well as I can.

[Case]
My reading says that it was proposed as far back as Plato's time. Selective
breeding would improve the human species that is not really a question. The
reason it is not a good idea is not that it would not work but that nobody
wants to be told who to breed with.

The article also points out that modern eugenics is indeed being practiced
through prenatal screening and genetic counseling. I heard a flaming
rightwing preacher whining not to long ago that something like 80 percent of
couples who were told that their babies had genetic defects elected to
terminate the pregnancies. I though cool that mean the incidence of Downs
Syndrome has declined by 80% but no he thinks God decrease that parent
should be forced to rear defective children. Thank God our courts have sided
with those who support individual liberty in matters of such a personal
nature.

[Platt]
The banning of DDT in 1971 resulted in the death of tens of millions of
people in the developing world, most of them children, from insect-borne
diseases such as malaria.

[Case]
Your concern for third world children truly touching.

> [Case]
> Your continued reference to global cooling and today's temperature in
> reference to climate change highlights the shallowness of your
understanding of the issues.

[Platt]
Sez you. Are you now The Source?

[Case]
Yes, I am "The Source" of all unbiased wisdom. But if you doubt me, we could
put it to a vote. 

Who thinks Platt has a clue about what is happening in the environment?

Vote early and vote often.

[Platt]
Utter tragedy of extinctions? I cry every night over the loss of the
smallpox virus. 

[Case]
Ok, when the choice comes down to us against them, we win. But hunting
creatures to extinction for sport, unrestricted destruction of habitat;
these are crimes against nature. That you consider this a flippantly is
nothing short of obscene.

[Platt]
I know. Corporations were responsible for the holocaust. And of course,
fallout from state owned nuclear power plants is nothing to be concerned
about.

[Case]
Corporations are merely working up steam for larger projects but their
record so far is pretty impressive: Love Canal, Kerr-McGee's asbestos
plants, Union Carbide's Bhopal disaster, Ford's weighing of the cost of
human deaths in Pinto crashes, the tobacco industry, the list goes on... So
corporations may be behind but they are working hard to catch up.