"Where there's smoke, there's jobs."
Foxy,
Where there is no smoke is where most of our tax dollars go because our tax dollars pay for an artificially clean surrounds for artificial positions with an artificial economy.

Dear Bazz,

I was referring to pollution generally speaking.

Over the past decades, pollution of the
environment has begun to threaten the ecological
balance of the planet and the health of many of
its species, including ourselves.

I don't think
anybody would deny that the planet has a finite
amount of resources or that it can tolerate only a
limited amount of pollution. If world population
continues to grow rapidly, if industrialisation spreads
around the world, and if pollution and resource depletion
continues at an increasing rate - and all these things
happen - we need to ask where is human society headed?
As I've stated in the past - the most optimisitc
answer to these questions would be that, one way or another,
sweeping social changes await us.

sweeping social changes await us.
Foxy,
profoundly so but I'm afraid the changes will be more anti-social than social.

SM you are absolutely correct plum as in plum jam and plumb as in plumb bob that's bob as in plumb bob not as in Bob Downe who is in fact Mark Trevorrow. Not doing too well lately after a bout of illness, but my opinions are as spot on as ever. Now that is about the only thing in you post that I find correct.
Now something very simple that the conserves can understand, and that's not the conserves as in plum conserve, but rather the conserves as in right wing nutters, who like things in simplistic terms, fits in nicely with their level of intelligence.
Take a fellow with a credit card, a bit of a bad financial manager, we'll call him Joe. Joe tells everyone who will listen. that his CC debt is out of control and he intends to cut up his credit card. But Joe also said "I'll get rid of my bad credit card only after I contact the bank and get them to double my limit." Joe doesn't tell his mates that also its October and Xmas is coming and he thinks it would be a good idea to max out the new credit limit on Xmas gifts for himself and his mates. Joe justifies this excess spending on the grounds that his ex, Kevin, when he was around, Joe's gay by the way, maxed out his CC with a new triple limit, and he's got to pay that one off as well.
I hear your asking, why did Joe and Kev split? Well, Kev turned straight and ran away to Queensland with a shella named Julia. Its sad that the truth is Kev has not been the same sice the days he was buggered up by a Father Tony from the CC mob. Father Tony took Kev's CC and buggered that as well.

Tony Abbott is our Prime Minister, in the spirit of helping a man in trouble out my thoughts on helping him make cuts are here.
Stop the greedy pigs nose in trough travel rorts see all are repaid.
Cut the social welfare for the already rich out, all of it.
Break his promise to reward polluters and name it affirmative action.
The list is long, apart from true waste do not dare Mr Abbott cut welfare while increaseing it for the already well off.

Razz, I've gotta agree with you about the Philip1405 character a bit a right wing dip stick. Razz is he your alter ego.