At 06:35 PM 7/15/00 -0400, Vandergraaf, Chuck wrote:
Wendee wrote of her log cabin home with outhouse:
>> I would love to live like that again, and actually we have plans to
>> live more like that one day again.
When most people lived like that, it meant high death rates from hepatitis
and other diseases because the outhouse waste drained into the neighbor's
well. Most of us wouldn't like to go live in those conditions. Your farm
may have been isolated from others. In cities just 200 years ago, people
died from drinking well water because it was so polluted with human waste.
Yum Yum! What a way for humanity to live again.
>>But for now my husband is employed
>> by an oil company (he is a chemist). Yes the company contributes to
>> the problem. Yes I contribute to the problem when I drive or use AC.
>> But I would rather help initiate larger changes in society that look
>> to the future than *only* change my individual lifestyles.
Chuck replies
>Wendee, as long as you worship at the altar of convenience, you are part of
>the problem and not part of the solution.
Concerning AC down here in the south: I went to Scotland at the end of June
to visit the office over there. The air on July first was cold enough for
the moisture in my breath to condense. When I came back Houston and felt
the nearly 100 degree temperature, I was eager to get home to my
airconditioned townhouse(I had left the AC on because my cat was in the
house with lots of food and water). I opened the door to find my cat
panting in a 91 degree house--my airconditioner's compressor had broken
while I was away. Both my wife and son were also gone so that poor cat was
on her second day of that temperature. Since it took 4 more days to get the
AC repaired, Me, the cat, and eventually my wife and son when they returned
got to spend time in our 91 degree, 95% humidity house over the next few
days. I will tell you that it was miserable. No one in their right mind,
if offered a choice of AC vs. the summer heat here would turn down the
offer of airconditioning. That is why I knew Wendee had airconditioning.
Everyone here has it unless you are among the most extremely destitute or
crazy.
So, as Chuck points out, we are all the problem. I don't want my grandkids
to live like my great grand parents. Because of that, I will do what I can
to help solve or delay the day of reckoning. I just wish the
environmentalists would realize that the choices are not easy ones and
going back to a world like that of the 19th century means most of us will
have to die.
glenn
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