In article <cui2svors6r9clbnbdspr2pv79eob8pti4@4ax.com>, David Patrick says...

On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 04:16:21 GMT, Sir Arthur CBE Wholeflaffers ASA
<nospam@newsranger.com> wrote:

Patty- I've heard that you have been thrown out of
the Debunker Corp. for being such a poor debunker.

I suspect you 'hear' a lot of things when you forget your medication.

Weak and sad :,<  Patty, I've been trying to get you
some help, but the debunkers credibility has hit
an historical all-time low.  No wonder, time-compressed
crash test dummies, stealth blimps, hedge hogs mating
ritual, super-duper top-secret weather balloons!!

Really, if I were you (and thank GOD I am not)
I would resign my job as a debunker.  You guys
are really pathetic; but you KNEW that already.  

So I guess that was your last post, right Patty?
Let me close by saying good riddance to bad
rubbish and please take the rest of your Cult
with you!!

ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT ECONOMY IS MAKING THE WORLD SICK

We're eating more meat, drinking more coffee, popping more pills,
driving further and getting fatter.  Around the world we are consuming
more than ever before: but more than one billion people still don't have
access to safe water; natural disasters are taking a worsening toll; and
we have yet to vanquish some of the world's biggest killers-diarrhea,
malaria and AIDS-reports a new publication by the Worldwatch Institute,
Vital Signs 2001: The Trends That are Shaping Our Future.  

"We're finding more and more evidence that the developed world's
consumption-filled lifestyle choices are often as unhealthy for
ourselves as for the planet we inhabit," said Worldwatch researcher and
Vital Signs Project Director, Michael Renner.  "And while much of the
world remains too poor to afford such choices, the emerging middle
classes in developing nations are following the same damaging patterns
pioneered in the developed world:  meat and coffee consumption is on the
rise, as is obesity and over half of the world smokers are now in
developing nations."

This 10th anniversary edition of Vital Signs-made possible with the
support of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the W.
Alton Jones Foundation-illustrates how an economy geared only towards
meeting insatiable consumer demand can adversely affect human,
environmental, and economic health.  A greater reliance on cars not only
heats up the planet but also leads to more sedentary lifestyles-a major
cause of obesity. The development of lucrative drugs to treat diseases
of the First World is keeping money away from critical research on
vaccines and medications aimed at diseases like malaria that afflict far
larger portions of the world population.   Industrial farming practices
have created one of the most gruesome crossovers of disease from animals
to humans, Bovine or 'Mad Cow' disease.

"The challenge of this new century is to extend the economic progress of
the last 50 years, while halting the ecological decline -- a sick planet
will, sooner or later, lead to a faltering economy," said Executive
Director of UNEP, Klaus Toepfer.  "The question is whether humanity will
forge a healthier, sustainable future or risk the downward spiral as a
result of not understanding the ecological and economic threshold the
world is now on. I hope that the statistical snapshot contained in Vital
Signs 2001 will help fill this information gap."

In a year when oil prices hit a 15-year high, car production also
peaked.  The world's fleet of passenger vehicles reached 532 million in
2000.  At the same time, average fuel economy remained stagnant at
mid-1980's levels.  Just before the Bush Administration effectively
pulled out of the Kyoto protocol, Americans were driving their cars
further than ever before.  Total U.S. carbon emissions were 13 percent
higher than they were in 1990.  

While technological innovation soars, 90 percent of commercial energy
use worldwide continues to come from fossil fuels.  Alternative energy
sources such as wind still only account for one percent of the world
total, reports Vital Signs 2001. 

"Living in the 21st century, we like to think of ourselves as
sophisticated, post-modern, technology-savvy world citizens," Renner
said, "but the truth is that our cyber economy is still fueled by the
same old energy sources.  And as long as consumers do not demand change,
manufacturers will continue to churn out environmentally destructive
products."

Gasoline, aluminum and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastics-which are
manufactured through highly polluting processes-represent the resource
binge we're on.  Consumer demand for common items such as automobiles,
aluminum cans and children's toys spurs these industries. But while
alternatives are available for almost every PVC use and aluminum
recycling requires only five percent as much energy as primary
production, little pressure is being placed on manufacturers to change
production methods.  

Our appetite for meat has also been soaring.  The number of four-footed
livestock on earth at any given moment has increased 60 percent since
1961, and the number of chickens, ducks and other fowl, has quadrupled,
from 4.2 billion to 15.7 billion. 

Feedlot production-the fastest growing method for raising livestock-has
emerged as a major threat to soil, air and water quality.  In the U.S.,
livestock produce 130 times more manure than humans do. Though
concentrated in North America and Europe, feedlots are also popping up
near urban centers in Brazil, China, India, the Philippines and
elsewhere in the developing world.    The demand for more meat has also
spurred the feeding of antibiotics to farm animals, a practice which has
been increasingly implicated in reducing the effectiveness of these
drugs in humans.

Drug resistance is rising across a wide range of bacteria, viruses,
parasites and fungi that are responsible for diseases from malaria to
AIDS.  At least half of all antibiotics used in human medicine are
prescribed unnecessarily, creating greater opportunities for the
survival and spread of resistant bacteria.
Pharmaceuticals are one of the most profitable and fastest-growing
industries in the world, increasing from $132 billion in 1983 to $337
billion today.  But big pharmaceutical companies have tended to neglect
the health of large portions of humanity.  All of the world's top
selling drugs are designed to treat First World conditions including
heart disease, high blood pressure, indigestion and obesity.  A survey
of 1,233 drugs that reached market between 1975 and 1997 found that only
13 were approved specifically for tropical diseases.

In the face of all these changes, Vital Signs 2001 points to some
encouraging mass movements that may become major forces in reshaping
today's consumerist lifestyles:

* Growing numbers of people are using socially responsible criteria to
guide their investments.  In the United States alone, socially
responsible investments climbed from $59 billion in 1984 to $2.16
trillion in 1999-or $1 out of every $8 under professional management.

* As demand for coffee has risen-up 10 percent to 7.1 million tons in
2000 and reaching $11.2 billion in exports-changing consumer preferences
are influencing how and where the bean is grown.  The vast majority of
this coffee comes from full-sun plantations-the ecological equivalent of
a rainforest clear-cut. But a growing consumer movement is supporting a
return to traditional shade growing techniques, which maintain
rainforest habitat and biodiversity. 'Ethical' coffee is now the fastest
growing segment of the market and half a million farmers participate in
programs that guarantee a fair price and working conditions to growers
and coffee workers.

* The alternative energy sector offers considerable promise in meeting
increased energy demands and providing short and long-term solutions to
shortages like those in California.  Though still a very small market
segment, global wind energy generating capacity was up 30 percent over
1999 and production of solar photovoltaic (PV) cells jumped 43 percent.

"The findings from Vital Signs 2001 show that when consumers demand it,
environmentally friendly and socially responsible methods of production
can be achieved, Renner said.  "The power of consumer choice cannot be
underestimated; for good or for bad it can sicken or save our planet."
-END-


A worldwide perspective on consumption: 		

Food
* Largest grain producer: China = 353 million tons 
* Largest producer of milk:  India 79 million tons 
* Largest coffee producer:  Brazil = 1.8 million tons 

Energy and transport
* Leading petroleum user:  United States = 26% of world supply 
(The U.S. constitutes less than 5% of world population)
* Highest carbon emissions:  United States = 24% of world total
* Largest manufacturer of solar electric panels:  Japan = 128 megawatts
(enough generating capacity to power 50,000 small homes)
* Biggest producer of bikes:  China = 43 million in 1999

Health
* Largest population of smokers:  China = 350 million (equal to the
combined populations of Russia and Mexico)
* Leading cigarette exporter:  United States (21% of world exports)
* Largest population of overweight adults:  United States = 61% of adult
U.S. population
* Biggest buyers of pharmaceuticals:  US = almost 40% of world sales
* Biggest selling drugs:  antiulcerants (antacids, for indigestion) =
$15.8 billion

Let me help you now by showing you how to
be a better debunker!!!  And I have to tell
the General what you said about him.  I hope you
were kidding because the Brass was NOT impressed
by your actions.

The only reason your General has less guts than even you do is because
he doesn't exist. Stop jabbering about this debunker war and actually
go and do it.

Although your country-men did us
proud by toppling that statue of Busch!!

As I told you before, I'm against the ongoing war in Iraq because it's
a dangerous distraction to the war on terror. But you'll ignore that
fact as usual as it gets in the way of you labelling me a US
government agent.

But these aren't the groups for your political beliefs. These groups
are for discussing aliens and research into them? Do you have any you
have written yourself?


David Patrick