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>Rocky Mountain High  - James Howard Kunstler - 
Typical hypocritical article from Kunstler this week. On the one hand he complains about the industrial destruction of the environment by man and on the other casually mentions nature destroying 82,000 acres by fire (with more to come) near Aspen.

It appears that returning to nature and a world made by hand ain't so satisfying after all. In his nature utopia there won't be heliopters dropping water -- only a bedraggled remainder of humanity stomping out flames with their (made by hand) bark-shod feet.

Giving up technology is no guarantee of safety, rather our only salvation if properly used. Mother Nature creates the real havoc: lighting strike fires, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, earthquakes, ice ages...you name it.


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Beginning of the headline :The techno-narcissism flowed like a melted Slurpee this torrid weekend at the annual Aspen Environment Forum where scores of scientists, media figures, authors, professors, and policy wonks convened to settle the world's hash - at least in theory. The trouble started Friday night when Stewart Brand, 74, impresario of The Whole Earth Catalog, and an economic cornucopian these days, exhorted the skittish audience to show a littlegoshdarn optimistic spirit about the future instead of just griping about climate change, peak oil, imploding global finance, and a few other vexing trifles... Read More
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