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Sabremeister Brian
Dec 15, 2009, 9:00:58 AM12/15/09
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In a speech called bacdi5hh8bbb6jo9n...@4ax.com,
A.Reader <anony...@example.com> said:
> From my favorite cultural anthropologist, the late and
> much-mourned Dr. Marvin Harris:
>
> "For the time being, we are safe from tyrants or entrepreneurs
> who want to corner the market on the breath of life. But given
> a proven ability to deplete and pollute the skies over small
> cities like Denver and Salt Lake City as well as over big ones
> like Mexico CIty and New York, no one should suppose that
> access to air is a protected birthright for future generations.
> Will the day ever come when giant utilities threaten to stop
> pumping air to homeowners who don't pay their bills on time?
> Stranger things have happened during the course of cultural
> evolution."
>
> ("Our Kind" (1989), p 131)
A.Reader <anony...@example.com> said:
> From my favorite cultural anthropologist, the late and
> much-mourned Dr. Marvin Harris:
>
> "For the time being, we are safe from tyrants or entrepreneurs
> who want to corner the market on the breath of life. But given
> a proven ability to deplete and pollute the skies over small
> cities like Denver and Salt Lake City as well as over big ones
> like Mexico CIty and New York, no one should suppose that
> access to air is a protected birthright for future generations.
> Will the day ever come when giant utilities threaten to stop
> pumping air to homeowners who don't pay their bills on time?
> Stranger things have happened during the course of cultural
> evolution."
>
> ("Our Kind" (1989), p 131)
"Gasping" by Ben Elton:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/tees/stage/2002/11/gasping/index.shtml
Released in 1990, IIRC, so at least one person took note.
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