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ON CARS AND MEN
We begin with brief outlines of 2
previous works on the subject:
I.--
ON CARS
by
Brian Paine
The
book has 6 chapters.
Chapter 1 is about antique cars.
Chapter 2 is about fixing cars.
Chapter 3 is about the different
parts of cars.
--A
car has four wheels.
--A car has a windshield in front and four windows on the sides.
--A car needs an engine.
--Most cars have headlights.
--Jonathan's car has a flat tire.
Chapter
4 is about cars driven by famous models and actors.
Chapter 5 is about how cars are
polluting the earth.
Chapter 6 is a long argument for
making cars illegal. Much space is devoted to the possibility of governments
initially imposing a progressively increasing gasoline tax, the revenues then
being used to develop alternative modes of transportation: building better
train systems, subsidizing bicycle taxis, etc. The tax would increase 15% a
year until operating a car would become punitively expensive for all but the
most showy rich.
On the cover there is a picture of
the author and his red Benz.
II.--
ON MEN
by
Robert Stencil
The book has 4 chapters.
Ch. 1-- Men will get hotter and
hotter.
Ch. 2-- Men will begin to die out
in equatorial regions; cities will sink into the sea, and plains repeatedly
ravaged by floods will reveal themselves to be fetid, poisonous swamps.
Ch. 3-- Wars; establishment of
tyrannies; the fall of such.
Ch. 4-- There through it all, like
the single red thread in sailors' rope, the Remnant.
[Outlines published this 15th of
September, 1998.]
III.--
[The rest of CARS AND MEN will
offer but a long series of press clippings confirming the prophetic value of
the books of Paine and Stencil.]
1) BEIJING, Aug. 11, 1998 -- The
Communist Party issued an emergency circular today that called on police and
other security personnel to maintain order in the wide swath of central China
being ravaged by the nation's worst floods in 44 years.
The government has announced that
more than 2,000 people have died, 13.8 million people have been rendered homeless,
and 240 million people -- almost equal to the population of the United States
-- have been affected indirectly by the floods that began last month. Chinese
officials have said that the floods are the nation's worst deluge since 1954,
when 30,000 people died along the Yangtze's treacherous banks. (Washington
Post)
2) TAPACHULA, Mexico, Sept. 12,
1998 -- After a tour of cities wrecked by floods in southern Mexico, the
president on Saturday night pronounced the flooding the second-worst natural
disaster in Mexican history. (AP)
3) TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, Nov. 3,
1998 -- Devastated Honduras appealed for help and set a curfew to stop looters
while rescuers throughout Central America continued to dig for up to 7,000 dead
on Monday after one of the century's most destructive Atlantic storms.
Their fragile economies ruined,
impoverished Honduras and Nicaragua bore the brunt of horrific deluges and
mudslides from a weeklong rampage by Mitch.
. . . .
Of 164 houses which once made up
the farming viallage of Rolando Rodriguez, only one was still standing on
Monday in a vast sea of mud that stretched as far as the eye could see.
Half-buried and horribly disfigured bodies poked from mud that reached to the
thighs, waiting to be doused with gasoline and set afire to prevent the spread
of disease.
4) WASHINGTON, March 3, 1999 --
The 1990s were the warmest decade of the millennium, with 1998 the warmest year
so far, researchers said on Wednesday.
The study adds to a growing body
of evidence that the global climate has been getting steadily
warmer--especially the last half of the 20th century. "Temperatures in the
latter half of the 20th century were unprecedented," Raymond Bradley of
the University of Massachusetts said in a statement.
Their report, published in Geophysical
Research Letters, shows that temperatures dropped an average of 0.02 degress C
(0.04 degrees F) per century for the 900 years before the 20th century.
. . . .
"As you go back farther in
time, the data become sketchier," Michael Mann of the University of
Massachusetts said.
He said records were not perfect,
but complete enough to show "startling revelations."
"If temperatures change
slowly, society and the environment have time to adjust," he said.
"The slow, moderate, long-term cooling trend that we found makes the
abrupt warming of the late 20th century even more dramatic.
"The cooling trend of over
900 years was dramatically reversed in less than a century. The abruptness of
the recent warming is key, and it is a potential cause for concern." In
January the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said they had
established that 1998 was the warmest year on record.
. . . .
A warmer global climate melts the
ice caps, raising sea levels, and disturbs weather patterns, causing droughts,
severe storms, tornadoes, hurricanes and blizzards.
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