RE: Response to Richard Corbett's comments about New Orleans

Although, I'm knowingly breaking the rules by continuing this OT
thread, I'd like to respond to this idea of Robert's, however cynical
or ill-timed. The quote he references was also used by another Robert,
a better known RFK Jr., this very week in an article published at
Huffington Post. In it he points an accusatory finger at Gov Barbour
of Mississipi (ironic yes?) for derailing the policy towards CO2
emmission concerns. More and more data suggests global warming is
responsible for the increases in frequency and severity of tropical
(and other?) storms.

I too spent a part of my youth in New Orleans, attended Tulane briefly
and have a deep love of the city, but we know we take risks with our
health and safety with many of our habits and activities... including
working with alt-photo chemicals. (a quasi-gratuitous attempt to bring
topicality into the text) Perhaps we can learn from this tragedy.
There is always hope.

Read the editorial if you like, and judge for yourself...
https://mail.umflint.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://news.yahoo.c
om/s/huffpost/20050829/cm_huffpost/006396;_ylt=AuYd8mJYhwfI.jFykcY8JeD
9wxIF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

Darryl Baird
Assoc. Professor of Art
University of Michigan-Flint

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Corbett [mailto:richard@rwc.my-bulldog.com]
Sent: Thu 9/1/2005 12:26 PM
To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Subject: Re: Response to Richard Corbett's comments about New Orleans
 
---- Original Message -----
From: "Harry Smart" <harry@harrysmart.plus.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 3:11 PM
Subject: OT: Response to Richard Corbett's comments about New Orleans

> Richard, I'm not sure quite what you mean by this, but it's a phrase
with
> biblical connotations, and many people would assume from such a
stark
> remark
> that you are suggesting the disaster that has befallen New Orleans
and the
> area around it is some sort of judgment. If you are making that
suggestion
> in the belief that it has some biblical or Christian warrant, then
you
> should be aware that you are wrong; and not only wrong, but
offensive. The
> kind of crude historicism your (implied) view represents is quite
> explicitly
> rejected in the gospels by Christ himself .. look at Luke 13, for
> instance,
> and the reference to those killed by the tower at Siloam. 'Do you
think
> they
> were any worse sinners than ..' No. Any normal human being,
Christian or
> otherwise, who looks at what has happened to New Orleans feels
nothing
> other
> than immense sorrow, and sympathy for those who have lost their
loved
> ones,
> their livelihoods, their homes. Shame on you for your remarks.

Thats all right. The USA governemnts attitude to global warming is
shamed by
the rest of the civilised world, including your governemnt wee laddie.

But they should worry more my freind because one of their own at texas

University recently presented a paper showing how one half degree in
sea
water warming
increased hurrican speed by 25% and I do believe that the seas around
that
area have increased by two degrees during the last ten years.

What you sow, like 50% of the world output of greenhouse gasses, so
shall
you reap, like last weekend.

And surely there will be plenty more where that came from, just give
it
time.

Richard

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