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- From: 471-1@air.atmo.arizona.edu (E. Shane Jimerfield)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment,sci.systems
- Subject: Re: Sheep in Organizations
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.091549.5644@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 09:15:49 GMT
- References: <1gm3bcINNaia@access.usask.ca> <1992Dec22.194319.1@acad3.alaska.edu>
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- In article <1gm3bcINNaia@access.usask.ca>, assmus@rocky1 (Bayne Assmus) writes:
- >>
- >
- > Why do so many "so-called" environmentalists preach against
- > nuclear energy, an industry with a low fatality history (yes,
- > we know about Chernobyl, a tragedy, but the only real source
- > of fatalities in the industry) when thousands of miners a year
- > in the United States alone die of black lung disease (an average
- > of 4000 deaths/yr during the seventies). These deaths occur in
- > a modernized country with safety regulations. How many deaths
- > occur in less developed countries that heavily rely on coal power
- > (and we can't deny them the rights to cheap energy that has given us
- > the standards of living we've enjoyed and abused)!
- >
- > Maybe Greenpeace should start intercepting coal shipments
- > --
- >
- > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > cranky geoeng's doing grad studies in the tundra
-
- One of the basic problems that has been stated over and over again is
- the waste, and what to do with the build up.
-
- I am not real fond of using the argument:
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- if A is not a deadly as B then use A.
-
- Especially when B is a seperate issue. And in this case the
- potential for A to be deadly is high.
-
-
- --
- Take 'er easy.... Shane
- .watch out for the lightning (a large-scale high-tension natural electric
- discharge in the atmosphere)......!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- ..informal... a sudden usually improbable stroke of fortune.......
-