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>> But mantra or not, my point is that you don't see Johnny H invoking the gods of
>> climatology to justify his position on carbon emmissions do you? No, he leaves that to the tree huggers. >> rationalising the work choices legislation in terms of the psychological
>> effects it has on people? Telling people that job security is not an issue in a country with full
employment? I agree. This point has not been made nearly enough. >> talking about the water crisis in terms of the effects on the ecology
>> which sustains us? The population is rightly suspicous of entering into such terms because every
argument about 'ecological effect' I have ever witnessed
- starts off with "I have right to control your property because .."
- degenerates into meaningless (or unmeasurable) platitutes.
Presumably you believe that ***SCIENCE*** can offer quantitative measures
of cost and benefit (without committing the sin of borrowing from Economics). Go right ahead. >> Nup, all that is clearly bunk, it's the Economy stupid. Thanks for quoting Bill (Pants Down) Clinton.
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