Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site rabbit.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!eagle!allegra!alice!rabbit!jj From: jj@rabbit.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Dr. Spock the diplomat Message-ID: <2520@rabbit.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Feb-84 15:23:14 EST Article-I.D.: rabbit.2520 Posted: Thu Feb 16 15:23:14 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Feb-84 01:09:43 EST References: <1020@cwruecmp.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 40 Gee. Two articles in one day. I should have stayed in bed. Mr. Decot. I don't even plan to comment on most of the discussion under this subject header, since it's not my ideas that are discussed. I DO wish to comment about soil depletion. Please, sir, look in your nearest library for literature about the "dust bowl", the Okies, and so on. Please then look at US Government reports, Scientific American articles, and the like about soil depletion. DAMNIT! The facts of soil depletion aren't even in debate. EVERYONE that I've seen who has even looked at the subject is convinced. EVERYONE. Liberals. Conservatives. Even Libertarians.If you don't know about soil depletion, either you haven't been watching television, reading the news, or reading the popular science journals, or you've skipped the articles in favor of something more interesting. As far as I'm concerned, soil depletion is now in the same catagory as nuclear waste was in 1970, fallout in 1955, or dioxin before Seveso. Any one of them can kill you, eh? Wake up! We have some NEW problems to face, folks. Strangely enough, the old, bad, ones haven't. Why? Because we've started to face up to them. What CAN kill us? Something we won't face up to. HUMBUG. I think I'll lapse into silence for another three weeks. -- TEDDY BEARS ARE NICER THAN PEOPLE-HUG YOUR OWN TODAY (allegra,harpo,ulysses)!rabbit!jj