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"Asgeir Nesoen" wrote...
>> <snip> Thanks Asgeir and Dave for pointing out the obvious, but, unfortunately, your average American doesn't believe fossil fuels will run out. If not in our (I intend to live to a point where gasoline and coal will no longer be available... just to die laughing) generation, then the next; which I think is short term thinking with regard to Roman and Egyptian civilatiations to begin with. 500 years from now, if the human race still exists, people will refer to us as an embarrasment. Jan. =--- |
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On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 01:40:10 GMT, Jan Verschueren wrote:
> 500 years from now, if the human race still exists, people will refer to us > as an embarrasment. > Jan, remember we're only one culture of the tens of thousands that have existed on this planet. Granted, we're a pretty large culture, but by no means humanity itself, in spite of what mother culture tells you every day through tales, media, schooling, higher education, songs, movies, books, whatever. <quinn plug>Read "Ishmael" by Dan Quinn, a most excellent work on this topic.</quinn plug ;-> Cheers, uwe -- mail replies to Uwe at schuerkamp dot de ( yahoo address is spambox) Uwe Schuerkamp //////////////////////////// http://www.schuerkamp.de/ Herford, Germany \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ (52.0N/8.5E) GPG Fingerprint: 2E 13 20 22 9A 3F 63 7F 67 6F E9 B1 A8 36 A4 61 |
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