Posted on 08/14/2007 11:26:41 PM PDT by gpapa
Environmentalists, with the help of politicians and other government officials, have an agenda that has cost thousands of American lives.
In the wake of Hurricane Betsy, which struck New Orleans in 1965, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed building flood gates on Lake Pontchartrain, like those in the Netherlands that protect cities from North Sea storms. In 1977, the gates were about to be built, but the Environmental Defense Fund and Save Our Wetlands sought a court injunction to block the project.
According to John Berlau's recent book, "Eco-Freaks: Environmentalism is Hazardous to Your Health," U.S. Attorney Gerald Gallinghouse told the court that not building the gates could kill thousands of New Orleanians. Judge Charles Schwartz issued the injunction despite the evidence refuting claims of environmental damage.
We're told that DDT is harmful to humans and animals. Berlau, a research fellow at the Washington, D.C-based Competitive Enterprise Institute, says, "Not a single study linking DDT exposure to human toxicity has ever been replicated." In one long-term study, volunteers ate 32 ounces of DDT for a year and a half, and 16 years later, they suffered no increased risk of adverse health effects.
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Williams holds the environuts’ feet to the fire. Bravo!
I would add that pollution from coal-fired power kills an estimated ten to fifty thousand Americans every year, and nuclear power could reduce that number to zero.
Ping for later.
One of his best-ever columns!
They have blocked management of the National Forests so that they are so overstocked with fuels that they now pose a severe risk of fire to the public.
It look to me like there’s a malware infection on the site: PC Turbo Pro.
In one long-term study, volunteers ate 32 ounces of DDT for a year and a half,
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This kind of noncommunicative writing sends me into a rage!
Just what is it supposed to mean?
How many people are aware that the foam keeps falling off the Shuttle because NASA had to stop using a superior adhesive that used CFCs? During the Clinton years, the EPA banned the adhesive because it might damage the ozone layer. Instead the foam fell off and killed 9 astronauts and destroyed a multibillion dollar Shuttle.
Got a link to your wild claim?
"... Alexander King, co-founder of the Club of Rome, said, "In Guyana, within almost two years, it [DDT] had almost eliminated malaria, but at the same time, the birth rate had doubled. So my chief quarrel with DDT in hindsight is that it greatly added to the population problem." [Because it saved lives].
Paul "Population Bomb" Ehrlich must be proud of his legacy.
It is hilarious to read the reviews of his book on Amazon.
Here's one review:
"Are people STILL listening to this guy? If so, it has more to do with prejudices and uninformed--uninformable--paranoia than with scientific or logical merit.
Ehrlich, in this seasoned tome, preserves for the ages some of his greatest nonsensical howlers about the catastrophic growth of human population in the face of vanishing resources and inadequate food. None of them was remotely close to the mark, but that doesn't stop people who so desperately _want_ our evil, soulless modern world to be brought down for its sins, that they cast aside failure of his models and predictions, and refuse to see that the world has debunked him.
Ehrlich's fatal flaw is easy to see and sum up. Sure, he was a biologist who studied populations, but populations of _insects_. And human beings--get ready for a shock--are not insects. We can innovate, invent, learn, and improve. I believe that that is something worth thinking about, even if Ehrlich does not." ~ Craig Kenneth Bryant bttt
Wild claim? Man, are you ever in the dark! Those figures are not even controversial (just unreported).
You can start with http://RussP.us/nucpower.htm and follow the links from there, especially the books.
I didn’t think so.
“I didn’t think so.”
No, you just didn’t think. Reading a book on the subject would be way over the top for you, so just stay clueless and happy.
Enjoy your feelings. I prefer facts.
All I asked for was substantiation to your wild claim. You cannot provide it.
Try being a man.
Your education is not my responsibility.
The books and articles I referred you to on my site (http://RussP.us/nucpower.htm) provide plenty of documentation for the well-established fact that pollution from coal-fired power kills many thousands of Americans each year. Oak Ridge National Lab published major studies many years ago, for example.
If you really want the “facts,” you should look them up for yourself instead of demanding that I spoon feed them to you.
Gotta run and water my flowers (drought here), so don’t have time to comment, but wanted to make sure I pinged you on this one.
One more point. People like you are kept in the dark by the mainstream media, which refuses to clue its viewers in on the basic facts of energy production. Hence, you don’t have a clue about how much coal is burned in the US to produce electric power: three tons per second. If you knew that basic fact, you wouldn’t be so amazed that it kills many thousands of people each year.
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