Up here in New York Ribit, Rachel Carson was on the Reading List in High School.
...she was borned in 1907.
You were probably studying Lester Maddox and the Scopes Trial. Or the Life and Times of Jefferson Davis.
Even for a person who obviously enjoys being fact challenged you could probably find out all about chlorofluorocarbon and the severe damage it has caused the upper atmosphere.
...yeah, there's hardly any trees there.
We are little more than a hundred years away from sitting in dark rooms and shivering against the cold.
...only if the environmentalis nut cases win.
What you and I learned as science sixty years ago doesn't amount to much more than a whole lot of very, very early ecological science.
...so why is you worshiping a broad from 1907?
As John Donne recently told me, No man is an island unto himself.
...does that have anything to do with what we are talking about?
I guarantee you Ribit if a guy upstream pisses in the water, your spaghetti is going to taste horrid.
...if somebody pisses upstream from me, they are going to be eating their porridge thru a straw.
I will believe in global warming when I see some proposed solutions that do not include taking money from poor people in rich countries and giving it to rich people in poor countries and paying AlGore a commission for it.

Liberals are like a "Slinky". Totally useless, but somehow ya can't help but smile when you see one tumble down a flight of stairs!