X-Message-Number: 10536 Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 07:48:21 -0400 From: Thomas Donaldson <> Subject: CryoNet #10531 - #10535 HI everyone! To Thomas Nord: When I visited Australia a few years ago I noticed an interesting thing. Lots more people were wearing hats. And hats, with long-sleeved shirts of the proper cloth, together with other things, did help against the (relative) lack of ozone. And that's why I took up wearing a hat myself. The broad-brimmed kind, a bit like a cowboy hat. We're not individually helpless against such things. While I'd have preferred sooner action to prevent CFC's from degrading the ozone layer in the first place, it seems to me that we don't have to simply stand there and get fried. CO2 is actually in some ways a more serious problem, although no one seems to be claiming that it will become so bad as to turn the Earth into a copy of Venus. Individually, of course, we can simply resolve to move to locations where the climate remains more friendly. And there is an interesting point about that: during the Ice Ages, the Sahara was a plain with lots of vegetation. The nicer areas may easily turn out to be those which no one wants to live in now. And just think: Greenland is still a dependency of Denmark. If I recall, you are Danish (apologies if I'm wrong). So maybe someday most Danes will live in Greenland (minus its ice, and warmer). Best and long long life to all, Thomas Donaldson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=10536