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Originally Posted by Sam
I need to dispose of a lot of mercury and it is expensive. The feds and the environmentalists have pushed it to the point I have to hire a company and pay them to dispose of it for me. Is this envirobaloney? Would anyone here be okay if I dumped it the lake or river by your house?
Have the politics of fear cost me money? Would Glenn Beck make a live link video and make a case for me. I live very well, but I could live even better if i could just dump this crap somewhere without paying for it.
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Really? you are paying for it or did you pass this cost on to your clients like any smart business person would do? I suspect your clients are paying for the politics of fear -- consumers usually do. Environmentalism has its cost and that is why we need to be reasonable and sure-footed about what is done.
Your point is well taken, however you are speaking of reasonable environmentalism of yesteryear where the scientific method showed us the ills of our ways....it's gone way beyond being reasonable today. And speaking of what the costs are, and by the way, Global warming/Climate Change is not proven science, but because of this bogus scare we are already seeing the effects on the increase of gas and food costs to name a few recent stories. The similarity to what happened back in the 70's with the DDT scare is frightening. DDT was banned all because of what someone wrote in a book and w/o benefit of real science to back it up... it quickly became a world political issue driven by the environmentalists --- all later to be found totally baseless after causing the deaths of hundred of thousands from malaria alone at a time when we almost had eradicated the disease off the face of the earth. The AGW/CC hypothesis has this same potential harm and more--all without any known benefit-- only speculations.