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- From: assmus@rocky1 (Bayne Assmus)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment,sci.systems
- Subject: Re: soapbox preaching
- Date: 16 Dec 1992 02:26:11 GMT
- Organization: University of Saskatchewan
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- From article <1gm3bcINNaia@access.usask.ca>, by assmus@rocky1 (Bayne Assmus):
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- >
- Why do so many "so-called" environmentalists preach against
- nuclear energy, an industry with a low fatality history (yes,
- we know about Chernobyl, a tragedy, but the only real source
- of fatalities in the industry) when thousands of miners a year
- in the United States alone die of black lung disease (an average
- of 4000 deaths/yr during the seventies). These deaths occur in
- a modernized country with safety regulations. How many deaths
- occur in less developed countries that heavily rely on coal power
- (and we can't deny them the rights to cheap energy that has given us
- the standards of living we've enjoyed and abused)!
-
- Maybe Greenpeace should start intercepting coal shipments
-
-
- just to piss you off twice, check the new snazzier signature!
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- cranky geoeng's doing grad studies in the tundra
- " remember, strip mining prevents forest fires "
-