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<p>Most people want to do what is reasonable to protect the environment, but there are environmental extremists who want to go much farther than what is reasonable. In their green view, environmentalism is tinged with class envy, and a belief that the rich are using more than their share of the world's resources. They would ration resources. They disdain the so-called throw away society. This is what they want:</p><p>1) End the use of industrial nitrogen fertilizer, which is produced by fossil fuels, and revert to 100% organic farming, which would cut food production by 50% and raise the price accordingly.</p><p>2) End the burning of coal, and revert to wind and solar for the generation of electricity, and raise the price accordingly.</p><p>3) End the consumption of meat and dairy products.</p><p>4) End private personal automobile transportation.</p><p>5) Replace the use of gasoline and diesel with ethanol.</p><p>6) End the use of nuclear power.</p><p>Obviously these changes would be extreme. Maybe it is just a coincidence, but these measures add up to about the same amount of sacrifice that would be required to prevent the threatened world-ending catastrophe of manmade global warming as it is being defined and quantified. Moreover, the same people who demand the above listed changes are also among the ones warning us about the impending catastrophe. </p>
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