While intrepidly exploring the bowels of USENET on Monday, August 11,
2008, snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com rolled initiative and posted the following:
Yes. We should all go back to wooden cards with stone wheels pulled by oxen. Once we get rid of the cars, the methane emissions from the oxen won't appreciably add to our pollution footprints.
I have not been drinking the Flavor-Aid, thank you very much.
It was Guiness.
No. I refuse to believe in technical advances. They are an abomination that should be erased from the face of the planet.
Only the rich. The poor won't be able to afford them, and so they'll sell their young into servitude to pay the winter heating bills.
You call this living?
I don't disagree. But ships also pollute our oceans poisoning our fisheries. But, then, when we can't afford to ship them into the middle of the continent, that won't affect me much.
I'm not ducking it. I'm goosing it.
High enough to recognize that ad hominem attacks are a loser's gambit.
Oh, please forgive me. How could I ever have confused STEAM for AIR?