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[cdn-nucl-l] Nature is now "The Silent Killer". It must be regulated.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ted Rockwell" <tedrock@cpcug.org>
To: "Multiple recipients of list ans-pie" <ans-pie@nuke-ans.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 10:47 AM
Subject: Ltr to Ed


> Friends:
>
> Here is a ltr I sent to the Washington Post.  Since you probably won't see
> it there, I'll paste it below.  It may not change things but it's good
> therapy.  Prevents "nuclear rage"  :-)
>
> TR
>
> It seems our water is now laced with arsenic. Suddenly, the Post tells
> us (July 5, page B1), the question of how much of the cancer-causing
> element is safe to drinkis no longer academic.  And were told the
current
> administration is ready to tolerate this situation until they can find out
> whether its dangerous.  Clinton would never have allowed that!
>
> Well, in fact he did.  For eight years, until his last week, we could all
> drink our water, with its 20 parts per billion of arsenic, without worry.
> Weve done so since the dawn of time, and there is no evidence that anyone
> has been harmed.  Yes, it is possible to eat enough arsenic to get sick.
> And there are places in the world where industrial polluters create such a
> problem.  But there is no evidence whatsoever that the arsenic levels
> permitted under most of Clintons and previous administrations have ever
> harmed anyone.
>
> As its name indicates, the Environmental Protection Agency was set up to
> protect defenseless Mother Nature against Technological Man.  It
continually
> tightened industrial pollution standards until one day, radium, radon,
> arsenic and scores of other natural elements were suddenly out of
> compliance.   Nature is now The Silent Killer.  It must be regulated,
> they say!
>
> When EPA found lead in the soil at Vail, Colorado, it threatened to
bulldoze
> off all the topsoil.  But the people found there had never been a case of
> lead poisoning therethey apparently dont eat the dirt.  So they chased
off
> the regulators.  Its time to do it again.
>