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- From: brett@bambi.wg.waii.com (Marc Brett)
- Newsgroups: sci.energy
- Subject: Re: Greenpeace: Anti-US feelings
- Message-ID: <1652@airgun.wg.waii.com>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 06:19:10 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.161857.24416@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> <56457@dime.cs.umass.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov17.161857.24416@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> dyrda@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Richard Dyrda) writes:
- >
- > As with the current thread on Greenpeace's amnesia on Saddam's environmental
- >catastrophies, oh I forgot it was the US's fault because we were bombing
- >him at the time. I'd like to show some other environmental disasters that
- >Greenpeace seems to have forgotten.
- >
- > Yellow Rain usage in Afghanistan and SE Asia.
- > RNS SSN Mike sinking in the N. Atlantic due to reactor fire.
- > Eastern Europe, esp. Romania and Hungary and their garbage problems
- > Daniel Ortega using chemical agents on Sandinista farms and "suspected" farms.
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- The "Yellow Rain" is nothing more than bee feces. Scientific American ran
- a good article debunking this particular myth.
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- As for items 2 and 3, Greenpeace has consistently criticised the USSR, CIS,
- and eastern Europe for pollution, nuclear and otherwise, as well as for
- their whaling practices. Their wrath is not aimed only at the capitalists.
-
- I got a belly laugh out of item 4, whew!
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