Dear Teacher,

Congratulations! You have been selected to receive a DVD of

[quote="Machiavelli"]Dear Teacher,

Congratulations! You have been selected to receive a DVD of

You know it just adds to the greenhouse gases to produce and ship that DVD. I won't even go into the energy consumption of operating a DVD player and TV.

DrTorch Wrote:You know it just adds to the greenhouse gases to produce and ship that DVD. I won't even go into the energy consumption of operating a DVD player and TV.

Thats a ridiculous argument.

Environmental advocates have never argued that all economic or industrial production should be ceased, and never would.

Complete straw-man.

OUGwave Wrote:

DrTorch Wrote:You know it just adds to the greenhouse gases to produce and ship that DVD. I won't even go into the energy consumption of operating a DVD player and TV.

Thats a ridiculous argument.

Environmental advocates have never argued that all economic or industrial production should be ceased, and never would.

Complete straw-man.

I'm pretty sure he was being sarcastic OU.

Lighten up Francis. ;-)

DrTorch Wrote:You know it just adds to the greenhouse gases to produce and ship that DVD. I won't even go into the energy consumption of operating a DVD player and TV.

You know the lack of trees in BG also doesn't help. BTW, just out of curiosity, what are you a "Doctor" of?

Always best to get them while they are young...

Nothing like a Shorebuc picture to validate a response. I still have that Pelosi-Clinton motorcycle picture seared into my head. That wasn't right buc.

OUGwave Wrote:

DrTorch Wrote:You know it just adds to the greenhouse gases to produce and ship that DVD. I won't even go into the energy consumption of operating a DVD player and TV.

Thats a ridiculous argument.

Environmental advocates have never argued that all economic or industrial production should be ceased, and never would.

Complete straw-man.

Actually some have. Many others simply want to return to a more "simpler" time, reducing substantially economic and industrial production, ironically despite the fact that efficiencies were far lower, and pollution/good produced, higher.