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- From: mvp@netcom.com (Mike Van Pelt)
- Subject: Re: NEWS: True Costs of Commercial Nuclear Power -- The Economic Failure
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.023609.3052@netcom.com>
- Keywords: energy environment press
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- References: <59049@dime.cs.umass.edu> <1993Jan25.013449.1720@michael.apple.com> <59098@dime.cs.umass.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 02:36:09 GMT
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- In article <59098@dime.cs.umass.edu> yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken) writes:
- >I must have not made my point clearly. A Greenpeace press release, from
- >Austria I believe, calls for reduction of, maybe even elimination of,
- >industrial uses of chlorine. The self proclaimed defenders of science and
-
- I've been ignoring you, but what the heck...
-
- The press release called for the elimination of industrial uses of
- chlorine *and its compounds*.
-
- >technlogy on the net: without reading the report itself, attack Greenpeace
-
- Whatever for? It's from the same source as the press release.
- Life's too short.
-
- >on the grounds that table salt contains chlorine. This attack must rest on
-
- Do you deny that table salt contains chlorine?
-
- >one of two premises: both of which are idiotic. The first premise is that
- >table salt is made by combining chlorine and sodium in an industrial
- >process.
-
- This is a prime example of what Peter Neumann, RISKS moderator,
- referred to as "Shooting a straw herring in the mouth." The press
- release called for the elimination of industrial uses of chlorine
- *and its compounds*. Do you continue to deny that table salt
- contains chlorine?
-
- >The second is that when GP critiqued the chlorine industry, they
- >were calling for the elimination of all chlorine compounds from the
- >planet, both industrial and natural.
-
- Wrong again. (But what's new?)
-
- I attacked GreenPest for presuming to dictate and lecture to the
- chemical industry on what compounds they may be permitted to use,
- while they are so ignorant as to be unaware that table salt is a
- chlorine compound. Those who presume to dictate policy really
- ought to have some conception of what they're blithering about.
-
- I'll now go back to ignoring you.
-
- --
- Mike Van Pelt Here lies a Technophobe,
- mvp@netcom.com No whimper, no blast.
- mvp@hsv3.lsil.com His life's goal accomplished,
- Zero risk at last.
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