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- From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
- Newsgroups: talk.environment
- Subject: Re: Greenpeace's alternative refrigerant
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 07:57:00 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- References: <17JAN93.18847018.0026@lafibm.lafayette.edu>,<Jym.24Jan1993.1942@naughty-peahen>
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- In article <Jym.24Jan1993.1942@naughty-peahen>, Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu> writes:
- >> Thus it is billed as the "first completely CFC- and FC-free
- >> refrigerator in the world."
- >
- >=o= Ouch. I don't have the Greenpeace press release on this
- >around anymore, but I recall it emphasizing energy efficiency
- >quite strongly -- indeed, that was the point of the venture.
- >No doubt it actually said it was that it was the first such
- >*energy-efficient* refrigerator.
-
- Sure, Jym. If GreenHype lied to us, make up your own fucking lie to cover for
- them. You and Yackadamn ought to get together. Between the two of you, you
- might have *ONE* intellectually honest bone in your bodies
-
- >=o= Somehow I know that there's about to be a deluge of articles
- >posted by reactionaries looking for any excuse to flame about
- >Greenpeace, even on the basis of second- or third-hand summari-
- >zations of their actual statements.
-
- Gee. How about just criticizing their commercials and their press releases?
- I know, they've just *GOT* to gloss over important weaknesses in their
- arguments, since most of us are too fucking stupid to believe their propaganda,
- right?
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