Rural, low tech living often involves serious sources of polution such as wood heat. A fine way to heat, but not if very many people in an area do it. Even the catalytic converters on woodstoves only help somewhat. Unless we are all going to live in Earthships ( http://www.slip.net/~ckent/earthship/ ), we are all guilty. A person who drives a horse and buggy but heats his home with wood may polute more than another who uses a cleaner heat source (that doesn't require trees to be cut down) and drives a car. At 05:39 PM 2/25/00 -0500, Joe L. wrote: >Again, I DO NOT advocate a return to the Horse and Buggy days, only that, if >the US population were catagorized and ranked by polution per individual I >am quite certain the Amish would be near or at the bottom of the list while >we of the Vanagon crowd would be a whole lot closer to the SUV owner >catagory than would be comfortable most of us who complain of them. Bill (SE Arizona) (Bill@freeholder.com) HTTP://www.freeholder.com ---------------------------------------------------------- Censorship is the assassination of ideas. No matter how well-meaning its proponents may be, they are more dangerous to us than any outside enemy. |
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