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- From: constant@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Tino)
- Subject: Re: Greenpeace: They're not just for propaganda anymore...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.163930.9491@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
- References: <1992Dec15.153620@aifh.ed.ac.uk> <1992Dec16.055121.1779@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Dec17.142038@aifh.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 16:39:30 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec17.142038@aifh.ed.ac.uk> jamesh@aifh.ed.ac.uk (James Hammerton) writes:
- ># 1. One speck/nanogram/whatever of Plutonium will kill you...
- >
- >It could cause cancer... maybe they put the point too strongly, but the point
- >does hold.Perhaps it should be rephrased as one speck of plutonium COULD kill
-
- One cigarette could kill. One glass of milk could kill. Eating a chicken leg
- could kill...etc etc etc
-
- ># 2. The possibility of a nuclear plant "exploding" somehow...
- >
- >Nuclear plants have been rife with accidents many of which have lead to
- >shutdowns, and there have been explosions in nuclear plants in the past,
- >so obviously it's possible, though maybe it should say that explosions can
- >occur in nuclear plants as opposed to nuclear plants exploding.
-
- Explosions can occur in your house...explosions can occur at a school...
- etc etc etc
-
- ># 3. The total lack of knowledge in basic nuclear processes...
- >
- >Who's total lack of knowledge? When and where was this claim made?
- >(I just want a bit of clarifiction here, cause Greenpeace seem to know the
- >basic processes of nuclear fission in their book on the nuclear age,indeed
- >that section of the book could have come from my high school physics text).
-
- See points 1 and 2.
-
- ># 4. Radwaste burial will kill millions...
- >
- >Haven't seen this one personally, but if radwaste burial can lead to
- >radiation leaking into the atmosphere for thousands of years then it is
- >possible that it would cause millions of cancers(if it were done on a large
- >scale).
-
- What if...What if...What if...C'mon, we're not idiots.
-
- ># 5. That renewable energy technology can replace nuclear power plants...
- >
- >It can; I'll post the details later in an essay on renewable energy.
-
- I'd like to see it. Solar cookers aren't gonna provides gigawatts of
- electricity.
-
- ># 6. Greenpeace is a "non-violent" organization...
- >
- >I have seen some of the discussions on this newsgroup about this, I'm not
- >entirely convinced either way, though I do believe that they don't aim to go
- >out and attack people(property maybe).
-
- Invoking violence? Yes.
-
- >Also remember that press releases are designed to attract maximum
- >publicity, so there will be a tendency to put the case in it's strongest
- >terms and may well be designed to shock people. I doubt that they would make
- >claims that couldn't be substantiated, but they should probably give sources
-
- That's a load of shit. How about the group that ran the ads against food
- irradiation? Even though it's been FDA approved, etc. their ads merely said:
-
- "Food irradiation--it might kill you."
-
- That is both unsubstantiated and instilling fear in people. Greenpeace
- examples also abound.
-
- Tino
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- "Here are the young men, the weight on their shoulders..." - J.D.
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