>
> The radical side of the environmental movement just succeeded in getting the Georgia
> Pacific pulp and paper plant in Bellingham, WA shut down. The mill, which has
> been in operation for decades, has also been hit with astronomical power costs as
> the result of insufficient generating capacity in this state, due in part to the successful
> blocking of new plants by the environmental movement. They tried to keep the plant going
> by renting 40 diesel generators, but the environmentalists got that stopped, too. So the
> plant closed last week, putting over 400 people out of work in a relatively small town.
>
> Looking at it in black and white, diesel generators do pollute. Power plants can pollute,
> too, if they aren't designed and managed properly. The mill, which had done a great deal
> over the last few years to clean up its operation, still polluted some. So the
> environmentalists can truthfully say they have successfully shut down a source of pollution.
> But what about the 400-plus people who are out of work? Every job at that mill supported
> seven jobs in the community (these are government statistics, not mine). So it's not
> just the mill workers that are losing their jobs, but waiters, bookstore owners, supermarket
> clerks, real estate agents, etc., etc., etc. It won't be long before one of the protesters
> complains because his or her favorite little restaurant has closed, or the auto parts
> store has closed, or the funky used bookstore went out of business. But they won't
> see the connection between those things and their all-or-nothing protest campaign.
>
> And THAT's my single biggest complaint about "youth." They don't have the experience
> or knowledge to see that everything is connected. In the past, it didn't matter so much
> because youth was over-ridden by more experienced reason. But now in our
> "minority rules" society, the one-sided yammerings of special-interest groups
> are given far too much say in matters that ultimately affect the lives of hundreds,
> if not thousands of people.
>
Go*damn it Marin will you quit doing that.
Just when I am about to say you are full sh*t you say some thing I agree
with.
However to all those who try to assure us that nuclear is non poluting
have you so soon forgotten Chernobyl.
It simply saves its polution to be released in one catastrophy.
Then there is question of spent fuel which is just being hidden at the
present.
John and Muddy
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