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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (damartin@ampere.mit.edu)
Thu Apr 13 15:57:24 1995
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 15:56:00 -0400
From: damartin@ampere.mit.edu
To: libertarians@MIT.EDU
> Russ Lopez, Environmental Diversity Forum
> Genet Domenitz, MassPIRG & many more
>
>whine, whine, whine; blah, blah, blah.
>Vernon, how'd you let this one get past you? What a crew! John Kerry, Mumbles
>Menino, Ed Markey, and Darth Nader's stormtroopers from MassPIRG. Holy
>Collectivist, Tax Us All To Poverty, Ultra Green Hogwash Batman!
Couldn't agree more. We don't moderate the libertarians email
list, so stuff like this can get through.
Interestingly enough, it was recently mentioned on CNN
Headline News that the rainforest in Africa was disappearing at a
rate of 5 million acres a day. This is 1.825 x 10^9 acres a year, or
2.85 x10^6 square miles a year. According to my almanac, this is about
1/4th of the total land area of Africa. This would seem to indicate
that either:
CNN's figures are way too high. The rainforest is not
disappearing this fast.
OR
The problem is so bad that it is too late, and in a few
months, the rainforest will be gone no matter what we do.
It is sort of interesting to see what happens when you take
widely quoted figures about things and see if they actually make sense.:-)
-David Martin
