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- From: michaels@psg.com (Michael Sandy)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,talk.politics.misc
- Subject: Re: The hidden costs of Environmentalism : A case study
- Keywords: r-12, cars, big bucks
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.033347.6511@psg.com>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 03:33:47 GMT
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- On figuring the costs to the enviroment:
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- Skin cancer rates have quadrupled in the last decade. CFC's stay
- in the atmosphere for a ridiculously long time, centuries at
- the least.
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- Now then: add to the damage done to humans the damage done
- to animals and plants. Just as you wouldn't buy milk from
- Chernobyl, you might get a little nervous about food from
- Argentina or Australia if the ozone hole gets a little bigger.
-
- Okay, that is a worst case scenario. Lets compare it with
- a few other expenses set aside for the "worst case scenario".
- How much was spent on nuclear fallout shelters?
- How much do we spend on car/house/health etc.. insurance?
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- We spend a lot of money on "worst case scenarios" and insurance
- companies still _make_ money. Obviously we spend more moeny
- than we need to if _they_ are making a profit off our fears!
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- Think of it this way: all the profit the insurance companies
- make is _absolute_ waste, whereas money spent to make
- the enviroment safe, and incentive and regualtions to insure
- competetion promotes new ways of making it safe are
- among the best _investments_ we can make.
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- Michael Sandy
- michaels@m2xenix.psg.com
- "I resolve to make no non-tautological New Year's Resolutions!"
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