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Why Are They Greener Than We Are?

Posted May 21, 2007 5:02 PM

From New York Times - Magazine:

The headquarters of the federal environment agency in Dessau, Germany, occupies a low-slung building on the edge of an abandoned gasworks. Dessau, a center for munitions production during the war, was virtually obliterated by Allied bombs. Over the next 50 years, East German factories saturated the soil with chemical and industrial waste. Yet both the agency building and its location might be said to embody a new, ecologically sensitive Europe.

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Re: Why Are They Greener Than We Are?

05/23/2007 11:09 AM

All Europe smells as state bureaucracy, paperwork and endless regulations that prevent any personal initiative. Europe will collapse under tons of useless rules that are not sincerely aimed to prevent contamination but to destroy free enterprise spirit. The green effort there is not sincere, because European bureaucracy looks green only from outside, but it is still red inside.

Jaime Soto Figueroa

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05/24/2007 7:48 AM

Call me a cynic, but I can't help wondering what you are throwing over the hypothetical hedge?

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05/25/2007 11:36 AM

May be I am wrong, but the fact is that hundreds of companies are escaping from Europe laying thousands unemployed there. The exceptions are Ireland, UK, Finland, Estonia and some more, but the massive fact is that "classic" Europe may loose its more creative brain reserve soon.

I wander why a person like Al Gore does not even say a single word about the obvious solution to the green house effect: Planting billions of endemic trees all over the world. He has visited our country recently.

All youngsters and students should undertake this venture, every weekend. Its very easy, we have planted hundreds of trees here with no need for any state help or bureaucracy, we just collect fruit seeds for some two weeks, and then go planting in public spaces, we don't even ask for permission, we just plant.

Jaime

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