re the earth also pollutes in article c uxhi h b murdoch acc virginia edu rwd f poe acc virginia edu rob dobson writes in article dzvb b w w cellar org techie cellar org william a bacon writes fury of mother nature clearly man has a long way to go to match nature as a despoiler of the environment bullshit how many lakes have ceased to be able to support life from purely natural pollution man has already done this to scores of lakes also much of the degredation you cite was done by cows and pigs you have perhaps heard of the dead sea i may be wrong but i believe it is not misnamed and i don t believe that humans had a hand in it although it is possible since the great cedar forests of lebanon were but a memory by the time of christ if not earlier but more on the point while nature is the may be the more prolific despoiler man is certainly the more creative we have to our credit pesticides and heavy metals not to mention radioactivity which is so wonderfully persistent and fatal not that we invented radioactivity or heavy metals we only concentrated them so that they would be a more lethal threat in general i find mr bacon s arguments rhetorical devoid of sense and therefore trivial btw is there any reason this discussion is on phl misc so long jr
