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[labellementeuse]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELLIE!!

Not that she'll ever read it, but it's sixth_light's little sister's birthday today, so, yay! :)

Also, it's April Fool's Day. Um, I can;t think of anything clever, so I won't say anything. (Dave, if you try that trick again I will GUT YOU. ;) No, not really.)

Also, in the paper today thre's one of those, you know, little interview things with half a dozen people asking them how they feel about the petrol tax hike. You know what frustrates me? One of the guys in the article said that it was unfair because "Using a car is the Kiwi way of life, it's just what we're used to." And you know what else? The only person who said she's try to use the bus more was the one person who needed a car: the mother who used her car to take her daughter to kindergarten in the mornings.

*annoyed* Now, I don't drive, so I appreciate that the hike isn't going to affect me much and I do sympathise. But hang on a second, people, when we drive we burn petrol, which pollutes the atmosphere, releases CO2 and is just generally bad. Why are we so annoyed that we keep having to pay more to do this? Because we see it as a sort of divine right, the ability to drive. Of all the people who were surveyed, most used their car to drive to work- one woman used it for her shopping, and one for her kid. Those, IMO, are good reasons to use a car. "Just crusing around town"? NOT a good reason. Maybe the petrol hike will STOP that, which, yeah, so it'd be annoying, but maybe it would also be a good thing.

Cause we wouldn't, like, die of pollution, or something?

yeah.

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[disturbed-kiwi.livejournal.com]

Orson Scott Card rants a bit about Global Warming on his website (http://www.hatrack.com).

I thought some of his points were interesting. That the tendency of the planet is to be covered in ice and in that way Global Warming is a good thing that protects humanity's hanging around.

I know I haven't seen huge amounts of scientific reports that agree with each other on what's happening, which tends me to beleive that we can't reach too many conclusions (of course, without being certain we should be playing it safe).

But I think his biggest problem is that he feels the Kyoto Protocols will not cause as much good (he says some admit it won't do anything really) as bad, particularly to the US.

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[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

:-/ I don't know- I only skimmed it, but what he seems to be saying is that the US economy is more important than, like, ANYTHING OMG, and going on about how if the US economy collapsed, so would the rest of the world's. (Also bitching about how it's giving China and India "a chance to catch up." Sorry, that's a _bad_ thing?)
Hello, Earth to Orson: the US economy is practically in a state of collapse as it is??

[disturbed-kiwi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, he definately has a whole US centric thing going on (we need peace, we need a good economy, nothing else trumps our needs).

I was more pointing at him talking about getting all the data in one place and actually figuring out what it could mean. I see stats all over but I'd like to see scientific reports, y'know what I mean?