Based on a comment I put in response to a piece on the remarkable accuracy of 1980's climate projections:
Dear People, Let's agree that we will disagree. And let's resolve that we will not let that disagreement forestall the proper functioning of our political system.
Let's agree that it is a function of government to control / limit / manage rates of taking of natural resources and rates of putting of various chemicals into the air or water. (Now we inject deadly poisons into the ground, in tens of thousands of 'injection wells', as a means of 'disposal'. I hope we can agree that this practice should be limited, too. Or eliminated.) Certain practices (those that impact the public or community) should not be carried to an extent that most people would say is too much. We should limit pollution and resource extraction to levels that most people feel is acceptable. Otherwise, the right of the people to define limits to levels of pollution, etc., becomes a mere assertion, an idea, not manifest in reality.
Only if we limit impacts to what people consider acceptable can we say that the right of the people to decide is being respected in practice.
We ought not allow a disagreement about the effects of human action to distract us from collectively defining overall limits to those actions.
Promote sustainability and justice through equal sharing of natural wealth:
http://gaiabrain.blogspot.com
Wed Jul 18 2012 10:20:06 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time)
Natural law requires respect of PUBLIC property rights, too
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