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To: agere_contra
The evidence since the 1800's is that high life expectancy is strongly correlated to industrialised, modern societies - i.e. the very societies that "pour tons of garbage into the atmosphere".

Are you telling me you believe our high life expectancy is due to eating industrial garbage?

240 posted on 07/11/2007 8:40:47 AM PDT by liberallarry
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To: liberallarry

Do you eat industrial garbage? No. Neither do I. It’s what’s called a “straw man argument”, like pretending that modern people and/or their chickens eat sewage.

Our society is inestimably richer than any other society in the history of the world. We produce more waste per capita than the people in Swaziland or Nuristan. But that’s because each one of us lives a higher energy life than the inhabitants of those countries. We have excellent diets, water supply and health prospects thanks to the high energy-consuming lifestyles we lead. So yes, the fact that we produce more pollution is linked to our high life expectancy.

Coming into direct contact with pollution is not good for anyone. But living a high energy, polluting lifestyle is extremely good for us.


244 posted on 07/11/2007 8:52:28 AM PDT by agere_contra
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