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2islander2
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0 posted 2008-04-09 02:53 PM


Wake up Chevron,
Wake up Texaco
you cut a million square miles
of forest
in Amazonia,
just to sell oil,
Doing that you kill the Earth
You expel indians
who just want to live
on their land,
who want non polluted rivers
and eatable fishes,
Wake up Chevron
Wake up Texaco
and all the oil companies,
The World doesn't need you
anymore.

[This message has been edited by 2islander2 (04-09-2008 03:24 PM).]

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2islander2
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1 posted 2008-04-09 02:55 PM


I just heard in the news in FRance that sarayaku women were resisting to Chevron and Texaco in Amazonia...It sems to be a good fight for the planet...


  yann

Marchmadness
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2 posted 2008-04-09 03:00 PM


We simply need another energy source. I think we would have one if the oil companies didn't have the money squelch new ideas. I'm glad someone is paying attention,
yann.
                                    Ida

gilead
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since 2008-03-10
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nevada, USA
3 posted 2008-04-09 03:41 PM


In reality, as long as there is oil, the oil interests will suck every drop of it out of the ground anywhere it can be found. But I share the concern over dependency on the stuff, and sadly my Honda Prelude runs only on premium!

Art

Robert E. Jordan
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since 2008-01-25
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
4 posted 2008-04-09 04:09 PM


Yann,

People need to live in the city, and walk more.  Horses are lovely animals.

It's as simple as that.

Bobby

Bob K
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5 posted 2008-04-10 02:59 AM





     Horses are lovely animals.

     When young I visited Greenfield Village in Detroit.  Part of the Ford Museum.  Many old historic buildings evidently retire there.  I saw Thomas Edison's laboratory there.  And I think Daniel Webster's house.

     Many lovely horses hauled tourists about, and delivered things that the historic buildings pretended to need.

     I never enjoyed being caught behind a bus and that blast of diesel exhaust, never, no; but I can't begin to describe the stench of that horse dung strewn randomly and historically about the streets of Greenfield village.
Complaints about pollution from the great cities of the world in the 19th century and earlier focused on smoke from the coal fires and the wood fires, of course, but dwelt as well on the horsey stench of the droppings in the streets.

  

JamesMichael
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6 posted 2008-04-10 04:47 AM


Fine writing, and interesting responses...so...I might as well add mine, as I was wondering what the citys were like before the automobiles took over...
"Sanitary experts in the early part of the twentieth century agreed that the normal city horse produced between fifteen and thirty pounds of manure a day, with the average being something like twenty-two pounds.  In a city like Milwaukee in 1907, for instance, with a human population of 350,000 and a horse population of 12,500, this meant 133 tons of manure a day, for a daily average of nearly three-quarters of a pound of manure per person per day.  Or, as the health officials in Rochester calculated in 1900, the 15,000 horses in that city produced enough manure in a year to make a pile covering an acre of ground 175 feet high and breeding sixteen billion flies"...Joel A. Tart.  "The Horse-Polluter of the City."  The Search for the Ultimate Sink.  Urban Pollution in Historical Perspective (Akron, OK:University of Akron Press, 1996.)...James

2islander2
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7 posted 2008-04-10 10:17 AM


Thank you Ida, yes we need to change, i hope it will not take too long...

     yann

2islander2
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8 posted 2008-04-10 10:24 AM


Hello Art, thanks for let me know you have a honda, i think it's not a so much consuming car...


  have a nice day

      yann

2islander2
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9 posted 2008-04-10 10:28 AM


hello Bobby, Bob and James I'm grateful for your comments that were very instructive and learn me a lot (it's more significant vu from Europe) ....I will not forget these comments...

  have a nice day

   yann

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