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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Natasha Vita-More<br>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [extropy-chat] Bill
Moyers' Comments - Global Environment CitizenAward</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>On </span></font></b><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Receiving</span></b><b><span style='font-weight:
bold'> </span></b><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Harvard</span></b><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'> </span></b><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Medical</span></b><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'> </span></b><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>School</span></b><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>'s Global Environment Citizen Award<br>
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<i><span style='font-style:italic'>by Bill Moyers<br>
</span></i></span></b><br>
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<font color=navy><span style='color:navy'>...</span></font> creating perils
with huge momentum like the greenhouse effect that is causing the melt of the
arctic to release so much freshwater into the North Atlantic that even the
Pentagon is growing alarmed that a weakening gulf stream could yield abrupt and
overwhelming changes, the kind of changes that could radically alter
civilizations.<font color=navy><span style='color:navy'>..</span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=3 color=navy
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>This oddball
comment again. I’ve heard it several times, and I have</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=3 color=navy
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>yet to
understand why Moyers thinks the pentagon would give a damn</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=3 color=navy
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>if there is
additional fresh water in the </span></font><font color=navy><span
style='color:navy'>Atlantic</span></font><font color=navy><span
style='color:navy'>. Do they think an aircraft</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=3 color=navy
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>carrier won’t
float in a slightly less saline sea? Are they concerned </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=3 color=navy
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>a northwest
passage opening up will cause some kind of conflict</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=3 color=navy
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>with northern </span></font><font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'>Europe</span></font><font color=navy><span
style='color:navy'>? Do they really take seriously the </span></font><font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'>Hollywood</span></font><font color=navy><span
style='color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=3 color=navy
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>notion that
global warming will plunge us into a new ice age? What is </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=3 color=navy
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>that about
really? Seems the pentagon types would be the last to</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=3 color=navy
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>notice or care
about global warming. </span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=3 color=navy
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>spike</span></font><font
color=silver><span style='color:silver'> </span></font></p>
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