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- From: nate@psygate.psych.indiana.edu (Nathan Engle)
- Subject: Re: The hidden costs of Environmentalism : A case study
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:59:01 GMT
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- thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:
- >kkopp@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (koppenhoefer kyle cramm) writes:
- >> I am not against protecting the environment, but should we have to pay
- >>this type of cost? Why didn't someone figure out a way to lower the cost
- >>before they implemented the regulations?
-
- If the alternatives already cost less then they wouldn't have needed
- a regulation, now would they?
-
- >Hey, you can pay the cost either in regulating freon usage so it doesn't
- >leak and kill the ozone, or you can pay the cost with the extra risk of
- >cancer to the next ten thousand generations. Your call.
-
- Careful with your numbers there, Ted. Ten thousand generations is a
- long time. At 20 years a pop the whole history of the US since 1776 is
- only about a dozen generations, and there have been scarcely 200
- generations since the formation of the first cities in Lower Mesopotamia.
-
- I agree with you that freon has a substantial negative environmental
- impact, but you've tied that fairly reasonable scientific appraisal to a
- prediction that is, at best, wildly speculative. IMHO it's best to leave
- extremist rhetoric to the Pros. Let Rush handle it.
-
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