Message-ID: <34268EBF.72CE@users.AfricaOnline.Co.Ke> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 19:29:03 +0400 From: Ndungu Kahihu <mailto:Ndungu@users.africaonline.co.ke> Subject: Re: IGNORANT! DANGEROUS! To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
V.Dimitroff wrote: > The quoted W. Rees article and all the sources quoted therein do NOT
> prove such a statement. After pages of quiasi-scientific arguments
> (where nearly-mathematical formulae are based on dozens of assumptions,
> most of them questionable), the author reaches a "Conclusion" which
> states NOTHING! There is no scientific statement in the conclusion, only
> green-evangelist rhetoric (appropriate for a journalist, not for a
> scientist) - which leaves the reader wondering what the whole article
> wanted to prove.
With all due respect I can not see how you came to this conclusion if, as you imply, you read the whole of Jay Hanson's article and, your words, >all the sources quoted thein.... The real threat to the world caused by unsustainable human behaviour does not even need a scientist to explain, not even a thinker. You come to Africa one day and, in my country alone, I'll show you exactly the damage we have done, mainly thanks to the uncritical application of western education and now western (mainly capitalistic) attitudes. And I am not even a thinker.
Of course there are very many people here who are equally uncomfortable (as you seem to be) when such things are pointed out, but this does not make the sad truth dissapear.
Ndungu