Indian Magazine "Frontline": If all the people of the world had the same living style as the average American, the holocaust would have already visited us.
"The motto of all environmentalists should be 'Thank goodness for the internal combustion engine.'"
Based on a recent study by the Food and Agricultural Organization, The Independent reports that "livestock are responsible for 18 percent of the greenhouse gases that cause global arming, more than cars, planes and all other forms of transport put together."
Long before global warming became an environmental concern, however, the move from the power provided by animals to that provided by gasoline had greatly improved the environment. The emissions that came out of the tailpipes of horses were much more lethal pollutants that those now coming out of the tailpipes of cars. Horse emissions did more than make our town and cities stink; they spread fly-borne diseases and polluted water supplies that killed people at a far greater rate than the pollution from cars and trucks ever have.
Reliapundit adds: To the left is a great New Yorker cartoon - one which I always think of when I hear Lefties whine about how bad/evil/dirty Western industrialism is.And then there's this from that article too: Cars improved the air ... that's no bull
... "the internal combustion engine is less polluting than what it replaced..."MY MY MY. Just more proof that industrialization has been GREAT for humanity and the environment. And if folks like Gore don't like it they should move into Ted Kaczynski's cabin! Unlike Gore and his Hollywood comrades, the UNABOMBER lived according to his whacked out "values!"
Photochemical smog is clearly a health risk, but not nearly the health risk of cholera, diphtheria and tetanus that have been largely eliminated with the help of gasoline powered transportation.
Before the internal combustion engine it wasn't just cows, sheep and pigs emitting pollution down on the farm. Tractors and other types of gas-powered farm machinery eliminated the horses, mules and oxen that had provided most of the power necessary to grow and harvest our food and fiber. This not only reduced the problem that still exists from animal waste that environmentalists, with justification, still complain about.
The internal combustion engine also eliminated the need to produce food to fuel millions upon millions of agricultural beasts of burden. It has been estimated that in 1900 it took about 93 million acres of land to grow the food for the farm animals that were replaced by current farm machinery. Most of that land has now gone back to woodlands, greatly increasing the number of trees that are reducing the problem of global warming by absorbing carbon dioxide.
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