26 Jan
2004
26 Jan
'04
7:26 a.m.
Yes, it is unbelieveable. The horror stories I've heard and personally
been involved with indicate that facts have little to do with what
actually happens. For example, a friend had an environmental person come
into where he worked and asked if anyone wanted to make a complaint
about a neighboring business as he was in a bad mood and wanted to nail
someone. Or the situation where a PC shop was closed down because of a
neighboring fire. Or people I've talked to who *used* to work for
government environmental agencies about what actually goes on. The
emotional response to many things are rather indicative that our
education system is a failure, preferring to promote actions by emotions
rather than backed up by facts. I got out of the business before I
killed someone; I am rather intolerant of stupidity (not pointing at
this list, but rather the actions done in the name of "protecting" the
environment.)
A saying I happen to like is there would be no such thing as the
Environmental Movement t'were it not for scientific illiteracy. If the
goal were *really* to clean up pollution, then we would not be dealing
with countries whose idea of waste disposal is to dump it in the river.
Tom Jennings wrote:
Of course I can only talk about Denmark, but the
way I see it, he is as
filled with lies as a cow with crap.
Any item to be recycled, must be treated in certain ways. For cars, e.g.,
various fluids, batteries, etc have to be removed, etc. The same for
fridges, where also the motors have to be removed.
Why you fuzzy-headed Danes must be some sorta communist
enveero-mentalists or sumptin! Why here in the US nothing holds back
profit, and someone else's grandkids'll clean up the mess.
While there are increasingly stringent requirements for some industries,
for most there are mostly only faint requirements on toxic material
disposal in the U.S. A surplus place I go to here in Calif. has
poverty-wage people standing in puddles of mud and goo, chopping copper
off transformers with bolt cutters and saws, sorting metals into bins to
be shipped to Taiwan. I know the owner. This is common practice. You
should see what most auto-wrecker yards do. It's unbelievable what goes
on here sometimes.