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Philip Kawior /p>

There will always be those who will cry "the sky is falling." The greenies who attend events such as the Live Earth concerts are simply modern day hippies who run around telling everyone how to keep the sky from falling on their collective heads. They then go about their lives either justifying or blaming others for any of their own "Poor Earth " choices. Those may include traveling in private jets, living in huge homes, driving SUV's, etc. How about those who own Stock in "not so green" companies? I suppose they can tithe a portion of their profits to "The Cause" to justify supporting, say, Halliburton or similar companies.

I am not so cynical as to believe that we do not have an obligation to some measure of conservation. I am just sick and tired of the hypocrites driving around in an SUV, watching their big screen TV in a house most Americans can only dream about owning, all the while they make huge profits from their oil stocks which helps to pay their high utility bills and they reach their Green Gatherings by plane, train, or automobile. Has anyone run the numbers to see how much of the sky we could save if all those folks had stayed home and joined each other via Tele-Conference on the Internet?? I would guess not. They're too busy running numbers on the rest of us.

p>My Father told me many years ago that "figures don't lie but liars figure." This statement certainly fits the Green Movement of today. br> -- unsigned /p> p> Excellent article, I am reminded of a book I read years ago. The author was Larry Niven as I recall and was titled Fallen Angels . It was about the environmentalists gaining control of the world's government and in their zeal to prevent global warming inadvertently created a new ice age with glaciers coming as far south as Chicago. The book was funny in many ways but was frighteningly prescient. br> -- John Mussa /p> p>

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