[Dixielandjazz] realistic future for Dixieland jazz

[Peter De Bruyn]

If we all could start to increase OKOM sounds through this whole planet, 
things such as environmental pollution would decrease without any 
reglementation. No Kyoto treaty rules wouldn't have been needed.

Let's attack them all with Jazz, happy faces and cheers !

Peter de Bruyn Sr
Jazz anarchist from "The Old Continent"





>From: "Bill Gunter" <jazzboard at hotmail.com>
>To: Jazzjerry at aol.com, csuhor at zebra.net, dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
>Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] realistic future for Dixieland jazz
>Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 22:07:36 +0000
>
>Hi all,
>
>I wrote an analogy to the decline in dixieland jazz popularity by citing 
>the nature of the horse and buggy.
>
>I wrote (regarding the public desire for dixieland by adding):
>
>> > But (this is "but" number 2) there is no way anyone can INCREASE the 
>>public
>> > desire to tool around in a horse and buggy!
>
>And Jerry from Norwich responded:
>
>>How about increasing the tax on gasoline to a level whereby the Americans
>>will have to stop being the worlds greatest generators of greenhouse 
>>gases?
>
>Wow! Two separate issues in one short sentence:
>
>Issue #1 - increas tax on gas so we Americans will HAVE to stop . . .
>
>This is, of course, a "punitive" tax. A tax designed to punish us for some 
>perceived misdeed. It's this sort of thinking that was partially to blame 
>for the Revolutionary War (circa 1776).
>
>Issue #2 - Americans will have to stop being the worlds greatest generators 
>of greenhouse gasses.
>
>Au Contraire - check these stats:
>
>98% of total global greenhouse gas emissions are natural (mostly water 
>vapor); only 2% are from man-made sources. And the American contribution to 
>this is considerably less that that 2%!
>
>By most accounts, man-made emissions have had no more than a minuscule 
>impact on the climate. Although the climate has warmed slightly in the last 
>100 years, 70% percent of that warming occurred prior to 1940, before the 
>upsurge in greenhouse gas emissions from industrial processes. (Dr. Robert 
>C. Balling, Arizona State University).
>
>A Gallup survey indicated that only 17% of the members of the American 
>Meteorological Society and the American Geophysical Society thought the 
>warming of the 20th century was the result of an increase in greenhouse gas 
>emissions.  So what did the other 83 percent think?  Would you hold that 
>the 17% is the decisive proof or would you tend to withhold judgment on 
>that?
>
>What do you know about the "little ice age" circa 900-1300 a.d.? The 
>climate warmed up for a century or two (global warming) and then cooled 
>down (global cooling) for a century or two.  It wasn't due to human 
>activities.
>
>One of the reasons that "Reputable" meteorologists decline to state 
>categorically that makind is damaging our climate is because when the 
>return to cooler conditions occurs they won't have "egg on their faces."
>
>Respectfully submitted,
>
>Bill "Perhaps we should tax popular music" Gunter
>jazzboard at hotmail.com
>
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