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Date: 04 March 2006 12:28:19
I'm glad my efforts on the last post were appreciated (you should have seen the maze of html I had to work my way through!). The only problem now, is I feel I've set myself a high standard that I must somehow keep up for the rest of lent! So, I can't make any promises, but I will do my best. For the moment, I'd just like to pick up on some of the comments that Micheal made on the last post and hopefully open some of the points out to further discussion.
...mankind and his poverty are also a creation of that natural order, and that mankind's efforts have also yielded the only solutions to acute poverty that we benefit from. Really? In comparsion to Micheal I'm not an expert in these things, but personally I would not say that absolute, extreme poverty is natural. And I'm also quite interested in the solutions to acute poverty that mankind have yielded.
...the only real means for sustaining and enriching the environment come through industrial progress and political development - something that we have come a long way in achieving. I can understand your point and I know where you are coming from. But, if the industrial progress we are making involves making huge power stations which destroy the ozone layer and causes global warming, then surely were are not sustaining and enriching the environment? In my opinion the only real way forward is through 'green' methods of providing energy.
As I say, I'm no expert in these issues, but often with these things it simply boils down to a difference in opinion. So, I invite you to express your opinion.