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- From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
- Subject: Re: The hidden costs of Environmentalism : A case study
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.185231.29034@wam.umd.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:52:31 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan28.163359.4916@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> doli@troi.cc.rochester.edu (David Oliver) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan28.033347.6511@psg.com> michaels@psg.com (Michael Sandy) writes:
- >>
- >>On figuring the costs to the enviroment:
- >>
- >>Skin cancer rates have quadrupled in the last decade. CFC's stay
- >>in the atmosphere for a ridiculously long time, centuries at
- >>the least.
-
-
-
- Prove it. Further, show me the figures that take into account
- the fantastic growth in sunbathing.
-
-
- >>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.
- >
- >I haven't heard anything which discusses the connection between a ozone hole
- >and the quality of foodstuffs grown in temperate regions.
-
-
- Why even bother? He's obviously an idiot.
-
- Some people are so ignorant, and yes--they actually exist as
- our friend shows--that they di not understand that radiation
- does not carry. If I expose an apple to super-high radiation
- and then take the apple and put it in my lunch bag and eat it
- at work, I will be perfectly fine.
-
- Irridation doesn't make foods radioactive/poisonous/whatever.
- People who claim that it does are, quite simply, dunderheaded
- numbskulls. The situation of increased radiation from
- ozone depletion (actually *good* for evolution, if bad for
- individuals) is in NO way parallel to Chernobyl. In the latter,
- the concern was the radioactive graphite which had been distributed
- and *eaten* by the cattle in grazing. It is the *graphite*
- that causes problems, because the cows excrete it in the milk.
- If you managed to somehow filter it out, the milk would be fine.
-
-
- >>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?
-
-
- Not much.
-
-
- >>How much do we spend on car/house/health etc.. insurance?
-
-
- For some people, not enough. The leeches--those with
- chronic sicknesses--should pay their fair share, and they
- typically do not. Instead, they leech off of the healthy (who
- recieve no benefit from insurance).
-
-
- >>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!
-
-
- They should make a profit. They provide a useful
- service that people want, but in no way "need" or
- "deserve" or"have a right to". Insurance is a *luxury*,
- not a right.
-
- [...]
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