Berkeley, Calif., councilwoman Nancy Skinner is in the van-guard of ecological correctness even in berserk Berkeley and refused to paint her home with oil-based paint, since petroleum is not a renewable resource. But after three months the milk in her milk-based paint turned putrid, emanating a stench that was ecologically correct, but pestilential. "It's like about 20 guys were in a room who hadn't taken a shower for weeks," she told the Oakland Tribune in a sexist remark, also revealing her expertise in male body odor. Non-ecological large electrical fans didn't do the job, and she ended up having the drywalls torn out, replaced and painted with non-renewable, planet-destroying paint.
Margaret Atwood, the sick Canadian author of the soft-porn novel "The Hand Maiden's Tale," has turned from masochism to flatulence
¾the methane-rich flatulence of cows which is "destroying" the ozone layer. Canada has 12 million head of cattle, each of which expels no less than 162 liters of methane. The world's cattle population expels 120 billion liters of methane per day, that is a lot more than expelled by Miss Atwood, who has failed to explain how 10,000 years of cattle husbandry has left the ozone layer intact. Instead, she has published the Canadian Green Consumer Guide, in which she lobbies for labeling products by country of origin, "so you know you aren't eating destroyed Amazonian rainforest with every hamburger bite."The Nairobi, Kenya, based UN Environment Program has is-sued a report that depletion of the ozone layer could (always the key word in these canards) weaken people's resistance to full AIDS if they already carry the HIV virus. (AP 2/15/92). This dis-covery is the more remarkable since the program has no way of measuring either of the two variables it purports to correlate.
Remember when the New York skyline made Americans proud and was the envy of the world? (Probably not
¾I keep for-getting my age.) A photograph of Britain taken at 7 p.m. on a winter night by a satellite from 200 miles above shows patches of light around all populated centers; almost the only dark spots being the Scottish and Welsh mountains, northwestern England and the Dartmoor region. Are Britons proud of it? John Mason, president of the British Astronomical Society, says "Britain is one of the worst light-polluted countries in the world."|
Vol. 19, No. 8
Newsletter: Access to Energy Newsletter Archive Volume: Volume 19 Issue/No.: Vol. 19, No. 8 Date: April 01, 1992 10:26 AM Title: Time to Invoke the Fifth
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